Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM8 on 5 April 2019 at 15:35 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Maldon at 15:35 on Friday 5 April 2019. The 32-year-old male driver 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
- 5 Apr 2019
- Friday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78182, longitude 0.67765, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wickham Bishops.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019420829534
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 18 December 1987
70 m awayRef 19874200C1571
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 29 November 1989
123 m awayRef 19894200C1548
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 15 May 2015
163 m awayRef 201542I138605
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 26 November 2002
166 m awayRef 20024200C0715
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 25 October 2002
166 m awayRef 20024200C0649
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 27 January 2022
167 m awayRef 2022421137151
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2019420829534 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 2019.