Serious B1018 crash in Maldon on 24 July 2018 at 17:30 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza, a Vauxhall Corsa and a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1018 in Maldon at 17:30 on Tuesday 24 July 2018. The 57-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 2018
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Ibiza and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66199, longitude 0.78252, in the CM3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Althorne, Maldon, CM3 6DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420313271
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1018
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2013.
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 22 December 2013
2 m awayRef 201342I408412
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 19 July 2021
3 m awayRef 2021421067506
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 8 April 2022
4 m awayRef 2022421164232
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 12 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025421682196
Serious
Alfa Romeo Mito crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 16 February 2024
4 m awayRef 2024421410836
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 27 January 2018
5 m awayRef 2018420262235
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 3 (Yamaha YZF R1)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018420313271 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 2018.