Unclassified road crash in Tendring CO12 on 14 February 2010 at 01:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tendring at 01:30 on Sunday 14 February 2010. The 48-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2010
- Sunday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94324, longitude 1.28933, in the CO12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201042I043702
- Council area
- Tendring
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 22 March 1997
54 m awayRef 19974200D0094
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 13 September 1996
63 m awayRef 19964200D0348
Serious
Car crash on the A136 in Tendring, 13 May 1986
71 m awayRef 19864200E0384
Serious
Car crash on the A136 in Tendring, 5 October 1984
71 m awayRef 19844200E0876
Slight
Car crash on the A136 in Tendring, 13 November 1985
71 m awayRef 19854200E1061
Fatal
Car crash on the A136 in Tendring, 13 December 1982
71 m awayRef 1982420040506
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 201042I043702 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2010.