Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM9 on 18 August 2020 at 15:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 15:20 on Tuesday 18 August 2020. The 39-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 44-year-old male driver of the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2020
- Tuesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78018, longitude 0.75821, in the CM9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020420973554
- 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
- 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, 139 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1995.
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 8 December 1995
139 m awayRef 19954200C0782
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 24 December 1987
658 m awayRef 19874200C1599
Slight
Dodge Caliber crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 14 March 2013
829 m awayRef 201342I066603
Serious
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 12 January 2018
841 m awayRef 2018420257489
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 5 December 2005
849 m awayRef 200542C074212
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 2 June 2000
854 m awayRef 20004200C0399
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020420973554 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 2020.