Serious unclassified road crash in Harlow CM18 on 6 December 2016 at 01:42 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on an unclassified road in Harlow at 01:42 on Tuesday 6 December 2016. A 19-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 01:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73898, longitude 0.10024, in the CM18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harlow
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420134426
- Council area
- Harlow
- 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
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 19 February 1996
28 m awayRef 19964200G0153
Slight
Skoda Kodiaq crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 15 December 2022
34 m awayRef 2022421254123
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 17 December 2017
59 m awayRef 2017420250073
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 10 October 1986
68 m awayRef 19864200G0769
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 13 June 2003
79 m awayRef 20034200G0483
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 24 November 2023
107 m awayRef 2023421378648
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2016420134426 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 2016.