A113 crash in Epping Forest on 1 November 2016 at 23:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A113 in Epping Forest at 23:40 on Tuesday 1 November 2016. The 19-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2016
- Tuesday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64944, longitude 0.11419, in the RM4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Theydon Bois with Passingford, Epping Forest, RM4 1TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420121689
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 113
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 2002.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 25 October 2002
9 m awayRef 20024200G0942
Serious
Minibus crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 8 June 1991
15 m awayRef 19914200G0376
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 30 May 2017
35 m awayRef 2017420186228
Serious
Dennis crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 27 March 1999
38 m awayRef 19994200G0213
Slight
Car crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 12 November 1987
53 m awayRef 19874200G0914
Slight
Car crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 15 September 1984
53 m awayRef 19844200G0620
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2016420121689 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.