Unclassified road crash in Harlow CM20 on 15 February 2016 at 17:30 involving an Audi A3
A goods vehicle and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harlow at 17:30 on Monday 15 February 2016. The 30-year-old female driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2016
- Monday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77902, longitude 0.09027, in the CM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Parndon & Town Centre, Harlow, CM20 2HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harlow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420045498
- Council area
- Harlow
- 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
- 40 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, lighting unknown
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 28 July 1986
5 m awayRef 19864200G0562
Slight
Car crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 5 June 1986
5 m awayRef 19864200G0459
Slight
Car crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 12 January 1982
5 m awayRef 1982420070024
Slight
Dacia Sandero crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 9 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025421680762
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 14 September 2020
10 m awayRef 2020420981117
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 2 April 1998
11 m awayRef 19984200G0235
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2016420045498 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 2016.