Serious B1027 crash in Tendring on 5 December 2021 at 16:19 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the B1027 in Tendring at 16:19 on Sunday 5 December 2021. The 22-year-old female driver of the other vehicle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Dec 2021
- Sunday, 16:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82142, longitude 1.06958, in the CO7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tendring
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021421117577
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1027
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 1 February 2000
33 m awayRef 20004200D0044
Slight
Toyota Lite Ace crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 22 November 1998
39 m awayRef 19984200D0441
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 9 January 1994
46 m awayRef 19944200E0029
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 8 May 2024
48 m awayRef 2024421440159
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 17 July 1999
75 m awayRef 19994200D0254
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 10 August 1998
83 m awayRef 19984200D0285
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2021421117577 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 2021.