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Serious A104 crash in Epping Forest on 7 November 2015 at 04:55 involving a Peugeot 208

A Peugeot 208 crashed on the A104 in Epping Forest at 04:55 on Saturday 7 November 2015. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
7 Nov 2015
Saturday, 04:55
Vehicles
1
Peugeot 208
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63919, longitude 0.03364, in the IG10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Loughton Forest, Epping Forest, IG10 4RP area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2015420031855
Council area
Epping Forest
Police force
Essex
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
104
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
A
Second road number
1069

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
Dry

Enhanced collision data

Serious injury band
Very serious
How severity was recorded
From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
Estimated chance it was serious
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years
    Engine capacity
    1,200 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 208)

    Serious injury band
    Very serious

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 2015420031855 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 2015.