B1018 crash in Maldon on 5 December 2007 at 07:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B1018 in Maldon at 07:00 on Wednesday 5 December 2007. The 48-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69241, longitude 0.68383, in the CM9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I506612
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1018
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 October 2009.
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B1010 in Maldon, 6 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200942I329610
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 22 October 2011
14 m awayRef 201142I336210
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 14 April 1990
14 m awayRef 19904200C0491
Fatal
Car crash on the B1010 in Maldon, 7 February 1988
14 m awayRef 19884200C0193
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1010 in Maldon, 26 September 1995
14 m awayRef 19954200C0603
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1010 in Maldon, 27 December 2007
22 m awayRef 200742I536012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200742I506612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2007.