Unclassified road crash in Tendring CO7 on 20 May 2011 at 16:24 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 crashed on an unclassified road in Tendring at 16:24 on Friday 20 May 2011. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2011
- Friday, 16:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85349, longitude 0.9785, in the CO7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tendring
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I153905
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2002.
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 4 January 1991
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 14 November 1989
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Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 9 July 1993
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Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 3 March 1998
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
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
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 201142I153905 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 2011.