B1027 crash in Colchester on 16 November 2013 at 20:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B1027 in Colchester at 20:00 on Saturday 16 November 2013. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2013
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87186, longitude 0.97843, in the CO7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wivenhoe, Colchester, CO7 9SF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I364111
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1027
- 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2013.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B1027 in Colchester, 13 September 2013
13 m awayRef 201342I274509
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 31 March 1993
22 m awayRef 19934200E0247
Serious
Rover 75 crash on the B1027 in Colchester, 21 October 2012
22 m awayRef 201242I337110
Slight
Ford crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 20 December 2005
22 m awayRef 200542D040612
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B1027 in Colchester, 26 October 2023
23 m awayRef 2023421367619
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 28 February 2014
24 m awayRef 201442I064902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 201342I364111 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2013.