A414 crash in Chelmsford on 22 December 2007 at 10:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A414 in Chelmsford at 10:40 on Saturday 22 December 2007. The 17-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71631, longitude 0.58042, in the CM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Danbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon, Chelmsford, CM3 4QQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I527012
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2023.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 24 June 2023
13 m awayRef 2023421323341
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 14 April 2023
14 m awayRef 2023421308710
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 21 November 2016
18 m awayRef 2016420128739
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 23 January 1996
20 m awayRef 19964200C0055
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 10 March 1998
20 m awayRef 19984200C0151
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 5 August 1993
20 m awayRef 19934200C0701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200742I527012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2007.