B1018 crash in Maldon on 27 October 2011 at 21:45 involving an Audi A3
A car and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the B1018 in Maldon at 21:45 on Thursday 27 October 2011. The 37-year-old female driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry road with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2011
- Thursday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66187, longitude 0.78253, in the CM3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Althorne, Maldon, CM3 6DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I346410
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1018
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2009.
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Ford Fiesta crash on the B1081 in Maldon, 15 May 2009
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Slight
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Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 22 December 2013
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Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 24 July 2018
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 12 December 2025
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Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 15 May 2020
8 m awayRef 2020420951567
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
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 201142I346410 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.