M11 crash in Epping Forest on 12 February 2017 at 15:37 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A car, a Vauxhall Corsa and a Peugeot 108 were involved in a crash on the M11 in Epping Forest at 15:37 on Sunday 12 February 2017. The 26-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 108 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2017
- Sunday, 15:37
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Corsa and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62561, longitude 0.06494, in the IG7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chigwell with Lambourne, Epping Forest, IG7 6AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420154481
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 10 October 1986
5 m awayRef 198601JB00634
Fatal
Car crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 28 February 1987
15 m awayRef 198701JB00142
Slight
Renault Trucks Master crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 3 May 2017
18 m awayRef 2017420177898
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 3 October 1998
24 m awayRef 199801JB00665
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 19 January 2006
24 m awayRef 200642G004101
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 17 July 2010
24 m awayRef 201042I228907
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 108
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 108)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2017420154481 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 2017.