M11 crash in Uttlesford on 2 July 2007 at 00:38 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava crashed on the M11 in Uttlesford at 00:38 on Monday 2 July 2007. A 21-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2007
- Monday, 00:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Brava
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9428, longitude 0.21682, in the CM22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I258707
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 May 2009.
Serious
Lexus IS250 crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 6 May 2009
20 m awayRef 200942I140405
Slight
Renault Master crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 7 March 2005
22 m awayRef 200542A011903
Serious
Volvo crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 25 March 1998
28 m awayRef 19984200A0172
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 25 October 1998
32 m awayRef 19984200A0722
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 11 December 1995
40 m awayRef 19954200A0820
Slight
Lorry crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 26 February 1989
42 m awayRef 19894200G0186
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,581 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Brava)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200742I258707 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Uttlesford road accident statistics for 2007.