Unclassified road crash in Harlow CM18 on 20 February 2017 at 18:33 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series, a Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harlow at 18:33 on Monday 20 February 2017. The 49-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2017
- Monday, 18:33
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 1 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74614, longitude 0.08941, in the CM18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sumners & Kingsmoor, Harlow, CM18 7QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harlow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420156872
- Council area
- Harlow
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 1997.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 20 June 1997
45 m awayRef 19974200G0440
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 12 December 2017
47 m awayRef 2017420248382
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 1 July 1980
55 m awayRef 1980420070408
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 23 May 2025
63 m awayRef 2025421594020
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 24 September 1989
69 m awayRef 19894200G0846
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 4 June 1979
76 m awayRef 1979420070395
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017420156872 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 2017.