B186 crash in Brentwood on 16 October 2019 at 18:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on the B186 in Brentwood at 18:40 on Wednesday 16 October 2019. The 47-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Connect van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2019
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57529, longitude 0.30028, in the CM13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herongate, Ingrave & West Horndon, Brentwood, CM13 3JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brentwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019420889098
- Council area
- Brentwood
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 186
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 186
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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2025.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 28 March 2025
1 m awayRef 2025421570772
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 16 October 2017
6 m awayRef 2017420229685
Serious
Car crash on the B186 in Havering, 24 May 1985
6 m awayRef 198501KD00436
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 5 April 2006
8 m awayRef 200642G029404
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 23 November 2011
8 m awayRef 201142I384911
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Brentwood, 21 July 2016
9 m awayRef 2016420088272
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Connect)
- 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 2019420889098 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 2019.