Unclassified road crash in Colchester CO4 on 2 April 2019 at 08:04 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Colchester at 08:04 on Tuesday 2 April 2019. The 24-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2019
- Tuesday, 08:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94519, longitude 0.95105, in the CO4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rural North, Colchester, CO4 5NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019420828303
- Council area
- Colchester
- 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
- Dry
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, 68 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1997.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 8 October 1997
68 m awayRef 19974200D0430
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 15 October 1998
68 m awayRef 19984200D0381
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 29 March 2006
69 m awayRef 200642E009803
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 14 May 1999
136 m awayRef 19994200D0167
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 23 September 2004
274 m awayRef 20044200E0488
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 6 June 2019
293 m awayRef 2019420845679
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019420828303 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2019.