Unclassified road crash in Harlow CM19 on 14 August 2015 at 02:54 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Harlow at 02:54 on Friday 14 August 2015. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2015
- Friday, 02:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75066, longitude 0.0828, in the CM19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sumners & Kingsmoor, Harlow, CM18 7QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harlow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201542I251908
- Council area
- Harlow
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 1997.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 6 November 1997
35 m awayRef 19974200G0843
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35 m awayRef 2025421638550
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 29 September 1985
38 m awayRef 19854200G0666
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 26 April 1979
38 m awayRef 1979420070287
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Mazda 3 crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 29 April 2024
40 m awayRef 2024421442636
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 19 June 2022
54 m awayRef 2022421189468
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201542I251908 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 2015.