Unclassified road crash in Harlow CM20 on 3 April 2014 at 15:14 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harlow at 15:14 on Thursday 3 April 2014. The 85-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2014
- Thursday, 15:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76894, longitude 0.11554, in the CM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mark Hall, Harlow, CM20 3JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harlow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201442I137604
- Council area
- Harlow
- 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
- 40 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2012.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 23 December 2012
1 m awayRef 201242I413512
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 3 December 1993
1 m awayRef 19934200G0778
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 24 July 2001
1 m awayRef 20014200G0699
Serious
Proton Proton crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 11 November 1994
1 m awayRef 19944200G0866
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 9 December 1995
1 m awayRef 19954200G0978
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 18 December 2004
1 m awayRef 20044200G1149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201442I137604 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 2014.