B186 crash in Brentwood on 17 March 2018 at 00:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B186 in Brentwood at 00:50 on Saturday 17 March 2018. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2018
- Saturday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56562, longitude 0.30029, in the RM14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upminster, Havering, RM14 3NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brentwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201842T096948
- Council area
- Brentwood
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 186
- Road type
- Single 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 13 December 2015
21 m awayRef 2015420035477
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 30 October 2020
28 m awayRef 2020420994644
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 3 October 1997
41 m awayRef 19974200G0729
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B186 in Havering, 17 March 1992
41 m awayRef 199201KD00233
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 18 December 1996
41 m awayRef 19964200G1041
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B186 in Havering, 2 September 1993
41 m awayRef 199301KD00728
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201842T096948 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brentwood road accident statistics for 2018.