Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG7 on 13 December 2018 at 08:55 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 5008 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 08:55 on Thursday 13 December 2018. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 5008
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6167, longitude 0.06159, in the IG7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420816092
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 15 May 1983
17 m awayRef 1983010JB0286
Serious
Car crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 4 December 1987
18 m awayRef 198701JB00861
Slight
Honda NTV650 crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 11 November 1997
18 m awayRef 199701JB00904
Slight
Van crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 8 August 1986
21 m awayRef 198601JB00484
Slight
Car crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 19 December 1987
24 m awayRef 198701JB00913
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 8 July 2005
28 m awayRef 200542G048507
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 5008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 5008)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 5008)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 5008)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 5008)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2018420816092 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 2018.