M11 crash in Uttlesford on 17 December 2015 at 17:00 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Ford S-Max were involved in a crash on the M11 in Uttlesford at 17:00 on Thursday 17 December 2015. The 38-year-old female driver of the Ford S-Max was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05207, longitude 0.19224, in the CB10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420037102
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 25 November 1997
23 m awayRef 19974200A0791
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 28 June 1999
26 m awayRef 19994200A0495
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 25 February 2002
27 m awayRef 20024200A0137
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 7 June 2004
29 m awayRef 20044200A0374
Serious
Car crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 7 December 2013
45 m awayRef 201342I390812
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 29 June 1996
51 m awayRef 19964200A0386
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford S-Max)
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 2015420037102 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.