Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest EN9 on 22 February 2016 at 02:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A vehicle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 02:00 on Monday 22 February 2016. The 17-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2016
- Monday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vehicle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71848, longitude 0.01889, in the EN9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roydon & Lower Nazeing, Epping Forest, EN9 2BE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420046013
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 47 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 October 1997.
Serious
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 19 October 1997
47 m awayRef 19974200G0789
Slight
MAN/VW crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 5 September 1997
47 m awayRef 19974200G0661
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on an unclassified road in Redbridge, 3 May 1993
48 m awayRef 199301JB00153
Serious
MG Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 4 February 1996
52 m awayRef 19964200G0093
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 18 April 2006
52 m awayRef 200642G025504
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 28 December 1997
61 m awayRef 19974200G0972
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016420046013 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 2016.