Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG9 on 10 March 2017 at 15:34 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 15:34 on Friday 10 March 2017. The 70-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2017
- Friday, 15:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61773, longitude 0.04452, in the IG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buckhurst Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridge, Redbridge, IG9 6JG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420162466
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 1991.
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on an unclassified road in Redbridge, 2 July 1991
2 m awayRef 199101JB00245
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 11 July 2025
6 m awayRef 2025421614916
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 2 October 1984
15 m awayRef 198401JB00611
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 3 April 1999
24 m awayRef 199901JB00262
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 2 June 2007
37 m awayRef 200742I212106
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 22 October 2011
46 m awayRef 201142I338310
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2017420162466 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.