Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM0 on 8 October 2011 at 20:45 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Maldon at 20:45 on Saturday 8 October 2011. The 18-year-old female driver and a 16-year-old female passenger were 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
- 8 Oct 2011
- Saturday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70433, longitude 0.83449, in the CM0 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I319510
- 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
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 May 1996.
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 13 May 1996
42 m awayRef 19964200C0297
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 7 March 2005
50 m awayRef 200542C012903
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 26 October 2004
50 m awayRef 20044200C0717
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 9 November 2009
50 m awayRef 200942I372811
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 19 August 1984
58 m awayRef 19844200C0884
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 24 February 1988
86 m awayRef 19884200C0302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- 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 201142I319510 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.