B181 crash in Epping Forest on 9 October 2014 at 18:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a goods vehicle were involved in a crash on the B181 in Epping Forest at 18:20 on Thursday 9 October 2014. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2014
- Thursday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76774, longitude 0.03758, in the CM19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Roydon.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201442I337010
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 181
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B181 in Epping Forest, 10 June 2006
7 m awayRef 200642G041106
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B181 in Epping Forest, 7 November 1999
7 m awayRef 19994200G0826
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B181 in Epping Forest, 19 July 1995
7 m awayRef 19954200G0527
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B181 in Epping Forest, 4 March 2011
43 m awayRef 201142I065803
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B181 in Epping Forest, 27 May 1999
74 m awayRef 19994200G0379
Slight
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 3 August 2007
111 m awayRef 200742I310208
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201442I337010 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.