Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM3 on 18 May 2019 at 00:36 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Maldon at 00:36 on Saturday 18 May 2019. The 21-year-old female driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2019
- Saturday, 00:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65868, longitude 0.62981, in the CM3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville, Chelmsford, CM3 5UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019420840415
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2025.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 1 December 2025
3 m awayRef 2025421677212
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B1012 in Chelmsford, 26 October 1995
4 m awayRef 19954200C0658
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B1012 in Chelmsford, 29 January 1996
4 m awayRef 19964200C0072
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1012 in Chelmsford, 25 February 1993
4 m awayRef 19934200C0164
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B1012 in Maldon, 2 March 1993
4 m awayRef 19934200C0182
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 2 March 2011
7 m awayRef 201142I060103
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019420840415 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.