Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest CM5 on 25 November 2016 at 10:30 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class, a Mercedes Cla Class and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 10:30 on Friday 25 November 2016. The 30-year-old female driver of the Mercedes Cla Class was 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
- 25 Nov 2016
- Friday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes A Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70713, longitude 0.245, in the CM5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chipping Ongar. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ongar, Epping Forest, CM5 0PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420133602
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall crash on the A128 in Epping Forest, 2 June 2012
8 m awayRef 201242I169706
Slight
Car crash on the A128 in Epping Forest, 24 January 2014
12 m awayRef 201442I027201
Serious
Car crash on the A128 in Epping Forest, 7 March 1997
14 m awayRef 19974200G0166
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A128 in Epping Forest, 17 December 1998
16 m awayRef 19984200G0990
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A128 in Epping Forest, 14 October 2022
16 m awayRef 2022421234342
Slight
Nissan Cabstar crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 9 July 1993
22 m awayRef 19934200G0393
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Cla Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,226 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Cla Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016420133602 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.