Unclassified road crash in Tendring CO7 on 21 April 2020 at 21:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Tendring at 21:30 on Tuesday 21 April 2020. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2020
- Tuesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84185, longitude 1.09149, in the CO7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tendring
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020420948375
- Council area
- Tendring
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2020.
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 15 October 2020
23 m awayRef 2020420990049
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 21 November 1993
25 m awayRef 19934200E0939
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 20 January 1982
56 m awayRef 1982420040028
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 6 November 2024
64 m awayRef 2024421513229
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 15 March 2006
132 m awayRef 200642D006603
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 25 October 1998
155 m awayRef 19984200D0385
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020420948375 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2020.