Serious B1414 crash in Tendring on 22 January 2016 at 11:05 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B1414 in Tendring at 11:05 on Friday 22 January 2016. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was seriously injured and the 29-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Defender was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jan 2016
- Friday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Defender and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83696, longitude 1.14193, in the CO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Little Clacton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420041679
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1994.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the B1414 in Tendring, 15 December 1994
41 m awayRef 19944200D0391
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B1414 in Tendring, 22 August 2023
43 m awayRef 2023421350242
Slight
Car crash on the B1414 in Tendring, 15 December 2025
48 m awayRef 2025421683377
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1414 in Tendring, 10 August 1997
49 m awayRef 19974200D0340
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1414 in Tendring, 21 August 2020
53 m awayRef 2020420974586
Slight
Car crash on the B1414 in Tendring, 4 July 1989
69 m awayRef 19894200E0674
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016420041679 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2016.