Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 23 December 2015 at 22:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 22:30 on Wednesday 23 December 2015. The 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65127, longitude 0.05737, in the IG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loughton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420036636
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1997.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 5 October 1997
13 m awayRef 199701JB00784
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 3 December 2020
25 m awayRef 2020421009644
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 9 June 1984
26 m awayRef 198401JB00365
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 23 July 1989
37 m awayRef 198901JB00594
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 30 August 1983
46 m awayRef 1983010JB0493
Slight
Bedford 10CWT crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 30 November 1991
48 m awayRef 199101JB00452
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2015420036636 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.