Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 15 December 2016 at 14:45 involving a Hyundai Santa Fe
A Hyundai Santa Fe and a Ford Kuga were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 14:45 on Thursday 15 December 2016. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Ford Kuga 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
- 15 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Santa Fe and Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64457, longitude 0.06303, in the IG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loughton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Loughton Forest, Epping Forest, IG10 1BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420137788
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 November 2018.
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 20 November 2018
22 m awayRef 2018420345421
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Epping Forest, 6 May 1987
46 m awayRef 198701JB00294
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 30 May 2015
48 m awayRef 201542I175605
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 7 January 2016
48 m awayRef 2016420037969
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 10 May 1980
49 m awayRef 198001EATCP56
Serious
BMW X1 crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 7 May 2019
55 m awayRef 2019420837254
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Santa Fe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Kuga)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2016420137788 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.