Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG9 on 29 December 2015 at 16:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 16:40 on Tuesday 29 December 2015. A 20-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61757, longitude 0.04381, in the IG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buckhurst Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridge, Redbridge, IG9 6JG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420036877
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- 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
- 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 lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 June 2025.
Serious
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 6 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025421599622
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 18 March 1997
5 m awayRef 199701JB00243
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 22 October 2011
5 m awayRef 201142I338310
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redbridge, 9 May 1986
5 m awayRef 198601JB00275
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redbridge, 3 December 1985
11 m awayRef 198501JB00756
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 2 June 2007
15 m awayRef 200742I212106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2015420036877 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.