Serious unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 6 January 2014 at 20:37 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 20:37 on Monday 6 January 2014. The 49-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jan 2014
- Monday, 20:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64702, longitude 0.06717, in the IG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loughton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Loughton Forest, Epping Forest, IG10 1BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201442I004201
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Epping Forest, 4 February 1993
6 m awayRef 199301JB00041
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Epping Forest, 31 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010JB0056
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Epping Forest, 28 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198601JB00252
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 29 June 2015
11 m awayRef 201542I237906
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 9 January 2015
13 m awayRef 201542I005301
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 17 February 2013
14 m awayRef 201342I042602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201442I004201 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 2014.