Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM3 on 4 May 2014 at 17:37 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 17:37 on Sunday 4 May 2014. The 22-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2014
- Sunday, 17:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67412, longitude 0.78292, in the CM3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201442I149305
- 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
- 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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1997.
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 14 March 1997
15 m awayRef 19974200C0150
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 18 July 1998
15 m awayRef 19984200C0452
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 13 January 1995
15 m awayRef 19954200C0021
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 26 September 1993
15 m awayRef 19934200C0891
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 10 June 1983
36 m awayRef 19834200C0588
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 17 November 1985
36 m awayRef 19854200C1345
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
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 201442I149305 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.