Serious B1053 crash in Uttlesford on 30 May 2010 at 01:15 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the B1053 in Uttlesford at 01:15 on Sunday 30 May 2010. The 32-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 May 2010
- Sunday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02174, longitude 0.28792, in the CB10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201042I157305
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1053
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2006.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1053 in Uttlesford, 26 April 2006
10 m awayRef 200642A020304
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B1053 in Uttlesford, 29 August 2000
51 m awayRef 20004200A0604
Slight
Car crash on the B1053 in Uttlesford, 29 March 2022
53 m awayRef 2022421163115
Slight
Isuzu Trucks NQR crash on the B1053 in Uttlesford, 31 January 2006
61 m awayRef 200642A003501
Slight
Car crash on the B1053 in Uttlesford, 29 March 1985
201 m awayRef 19854200G0191
Serious
Ford Fusion crash on the B1053 in Uttlesford, 15 December 2016
233 m awayRef 2016420138242
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 201042I157305 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 2010.