Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 19 December 2013 at 16:38 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and an Alfa Romeo 147 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 16:38 on Thursday 19 December 2013. The 48-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 16:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Alfa Romeo 147
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64526, longitude 0.08041, in the IG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loughton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Loughton Roding, Epping Forest, IG10 3RS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I405712
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2017.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 21 July 2017
2 m awayRef 2017420202631
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 23 July 1986
4 m awayRef 198601JB00452
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 23 July 1991
4 m awayRef 199101JB00271
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 13 November 1990
4 m awayRef 199001JB00538
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 30 June 1994
4 m awayRef 199401JO00277
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 2 May 2021
10 m awayRef 2021421041306
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Alfa Romeo 147
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 201342I405712 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 2013.