Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM8 on 28 March 2014 at 13:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 13:30 on Friday 28 March 2014. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2014
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79953, longitude 0.70607, in the CM8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Totham, Maldon, CO5 0QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201442I097703
- Council area
- Maldon
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2014.
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5 m awayRef 201442I050202
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Proton Persona crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 13 May 2002
5 m awayRef 20024200C0265
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 2 September 2010
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 5 July 2004
9 m awayRef 20044200C0424
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 6 May 1994
9 m awayRef 19944200C0408
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 8 March 2001
9 m awayRef 20014200C0151
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201442I097703 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2014.