Serious B184 crash in Uttlesford on 27 July 2010 at 00:10 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on the B184 in Uttlesford at 00:10 on Tuesday 27 July 2010. The 21-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jul 2010
- Tuesday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03555, longitude 0.21922, in the CB11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201042I236407
- 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
- 184
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 July 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the B184 in Uttlesford, 18 July 1986
22 m awayRef 19864200G0535
Serious
Car crash on the B184 in Uttlesford, 24 December 1984
22 m awayRef 19844200G0966
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B184 in Uttlesford, 23 August 1998
22 m awayRef 19984200A0552
Serious
Kia EV3 Air crash on the B184 in Uttlesford, 23 May 2025
30 m awayRef 2025421594035
Slight
Car crash on the B184 in Uttlesford, 17 October 1987
81 m awayRef 19874200G0838
Slight
Taxi crash on the B184 in Uttlesford, 24 March 2013
89 m awayRef 201342I077203
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201042I236407 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.