A414 crash in Harlow on 6 May 2011 at 08:00 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A414 in Harlow at 08:00 on Friday 6 May 2011. The 90-year-old male driver of the other vehicle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2011
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78644, longitude 0.12302, in the CM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Harlow, Harlow, CM17 0AE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I231605
- Council area
- Harlow
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2006.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A414 in Harlow, 27 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200642I290207
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A414 in Harlow, 7 March 2001
10 m awayRef 20014200G0243
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 15 June 2002
14 m awayRef 20024200G0507
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A414 in Harlow, 7 January 1995
20 m awayRef 19954200G0016
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A414 in Harlow, 26 July 2005
20 m awayRef 200542G053907
Slight
Lorry crash on the A414 in Harlow, 22 July 1999
20 m awayRef 19994200G0511
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 90 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 90, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 201142I231605 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 2011.