A414 crash in Chelmsford on 17 March 2016 at 08:57 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A414 in Chelmsford at 08:57 on Thursday 17 March 2016. The 38-year-old female driver of the Ford Kuga was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 08:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Kuga and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71705, longitude 0.33409, in the CM4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420051945
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2025.
Slight
Smart Forfour crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 1 April 2025
3 m awayRef 2025421572369
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 24 December 2001
28 m awayRef 20014200G1237
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 14 October 1989
39 m awayRef 19894200C1330
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 4 June 1985
39 m awayRef 19854200C0549
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 26 July 1985
39 m awayRef 19854200G0505
Serious
Car crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 3 February 1986
39 m awayRef 19864200G0109
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Kuga)
- 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 2016420051945 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2016.