Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM8 on 3 September 2011 at 11:16 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 11:16 on Saturday 3 September 2011. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 2011
- Saturday, 11:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77361, longitude 0.68024, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Totham, near Wickham Bishops. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Totham, Maldon, CM9 8PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I279209
- Council area
- Maldon
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 201142I279209 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2011.