Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM3 on 18 March 2016 at 07:02 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 07:02 on Friday 18 March 2016. The 59-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai and the 27-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2016
- Friday, 07:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67259, longitude 0.66589, in the CM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cold Norton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420052231
- Council area
- Maldon
- 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
- 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
- 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, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 September 1984.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 4 September 1984
50 m awayRef 19844200C0941
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 21 December 2005
72 m awayRef 200542C081112
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Maldon, 22 October 2025
76 m awayRef 2025421657565
Serious
Car crash on the B1012 in Maldon, 13 April 1983
92 m awayRef 19834200C0370
Slight
Car crash on the B1012 in Maldon, 28 November 1987
92 m awayRef 19874200C1447
Slight
Renault Kadjar crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 16 March 2018
96 m awayRef 2018420276965
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 2016420052231 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2016.