Unclassified road crash in Tendring CO15 on 28 March 2012 at 14:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tendring at 14:10 on Wednesday 28 March 2012. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Ford KA and the 19-year-old female driver of the Ford KA were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2012
- Wednesday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7925, longitude 1.15128, in the CO15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clacton-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pier, Tendring, CO15 1TU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201242I096803
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 2004.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 7 January 2004
10 m awayRef 20044200D0003
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 11 January 2001
10 m awayRef 20014200D0012
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 10 June 1998
10 m awayRef 19984200D0207
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 8 October 2007
14 m awayRef 200742I410710
Fatal
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 8 February 2009
22 m awayRef 200942I034802
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 21 July 2014
30 m awayRef 201442I235807
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 201242I096803 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 2012.