A12 crash in Chelmsford on 26 November 2019 at 16:39 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A12 in Chelmsford at 16:39 on Tuesday 26 November 2019. An 80-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Corolla was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2019
- Tuesday, 16:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7521, longitude 0.52059, in the CM98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boreham and The Leighs, Chelmsford, CM2 5PP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019420903377
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2002.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 18 February 2002
9 m awayRef 20024200C0117
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 14 January 2001
11 m awayRef 20014200C0025
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 14 December 1995
14 m awayRef 19954200C0799
Slight
Lorry crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 26 February 2018
21 m awayRef 2018420289931
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 1 January 1999
23 m awayRef 19994200C0003
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 7 December 2016
25 m awayRef 2016420135385
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019420903377 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2019.