Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 10 October 2012 at 00:20 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 00:20 on Wednesday 10 October 2012. The 22-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2012
- Wednesday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66103, longitude 0.01347, in the IG10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201242I347010
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- 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
- Other 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 33%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 67%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 24 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901JB00552
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 8 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198701JC00498
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 19 April 1990
20 m awayRef 199001JB00191
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 14 February 1984
20 m awayRef 198401JC00102
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 16 September 1991
22 m awayRef 199101JB00348
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 6 May 1995
40 m awayRef 199501JO00139
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201242I347010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 2012.