A1060 crash in Uttlesford on 8 November 2015 at 02:25 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the A1060 in Uttlesford at 02:25 on Sunday 8 November 2015. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2015
- Sunday, 02:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78152, longitude 0.32092, in the CM6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420031679
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1060
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2003.
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A1016 in Uttlesford, 21 November 2003
14 m awayRef 20034200A0813
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1060 in Uttlesford, 18 September 1992
40 m awayRef 19924200G0592
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1060 in Uttlesford, 18 May 1985
46 m awayRef 19854200G0316
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1060 in Uttlesford, 20 August 1987
46 m awayRef 19874200G0656
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1060 in Uttlesford, 9 January 2021
59 m awayRef 2021421012999
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A1060 in Uttlesford, 1 September 2002
94 m awayRef 20024200A0526
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 2015420031679 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Uttlesford road accident statistics for 2015.