Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest EN9 on 26 January 2010 at 19:25 involving a Peugeot 206
Two Peugeot 206 cars, a Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 19:25 on Tuesday 26 January 2010. The 21-year-old female driver of vehicle 2, the 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 28-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2010
- Tuesday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 4
- Peugeot 206 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73575, longitude 0.01911, in the EN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lower Nazeing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roydon & Lower Nazeing, Epping Forest, EN9 2NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201042I017801
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 22 February 2013
10 m awayRef 201342I050302
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 10 June 1988
54 m awayRef 19884200G0480
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 12 January 1980
54 m awayRef 1980420070029
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 28 March 1992
58 m awayRef 19924200G0177
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 22 November 2025
73 m awayRef 2025421672561
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 15 March 1998
104 m awayRef 19984200G0190
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Car)
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 201042I017801 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 2010.