Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM0 on 15 October 2017 at 04:30 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia crashed on an unclassified road in Maldon at 04:30 on Sunday 15 October 2017. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2017
- Sunday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71091, longitude 0.85819, in the CM0 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420229457
- Council area
- Maldon
- 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
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 28 February 2013
10 m awayRef 201342I062802
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 26 July 1994
84 m awayRef 19944200C0606
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 6 December 1998
96 m awayRef 19984200C0822
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 2 February 2000
132 m awayRef 20004200C0088
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 29 March 1994
140 m awayRef 19944200C0305
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 1 October 2000
145 m awayRef 20004200C0663
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017420229457 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2017.