Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest RM4 on 3 October 2010 at 02:59 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 02:59 on Sunday 3 October 2010. The female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2010
- Sunday, 02:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63313, longitude 0.13189, in the RM4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201042I317410
- 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
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 22 September 2006
20 m awayRef 200642I381109
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 7 March 2008
50 m awayRef 200842I082703
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 26 August 1979
57 m awayRef 1979420070591
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 18 December 1982
57 m awayRef 1982420070937
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 30 September 1980
57 m awayRef 1980420070620
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 25 December 1979
57 m awayRef 1979420070965
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 201042I317410 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.