A133 crash in Tendring on 19 February 2018 at 17:32 involving a Citroen Relay van
A Citroen Relay van and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A133 in Tendring at 17:32 on Monday 19 February 2018. The 26-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper and a 24-year-old female passenger in the Mini Cooper were slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2018
- Monday, 17:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Relay and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86305, longitude 1.09174, in the CO16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weeley & Tendring, Tendring, CO16 0BH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420290193
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 133
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2016.
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on the A133 in Tendring, 26 August 2016
9 m awayRef 2016420115382
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A133 in Tendring, 27 July 2008
13 m awayRef 200842I259807
Serious
Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the A133 in Tendring, 29 August 2007
13 m awayRef 200742I346708
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A133 in Tendring, 15 September 2009
13 m awayRef 200942I313509
Slight
Lexus NX 450 crash on the A133 in Tendring, 11 October 2025
15 m awayRef 2025421653210
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A133 in Tendring, 22 August 2000
17 m awayRef 20004200D0312
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Relay
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018420290193 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2018.