Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 27 May 2022 at 01:30 involving a Bentley Continental
A Bentley Continental crashed on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 01:30 on Friday 27 May 2022. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2022
- Friday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bentley Continental
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64727, longitude 0.0671, in the IG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loughton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Loughton Forest, Epping Forest, IG10 1BN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022421182218
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2015.
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 12 July 2015
7 m awayRef 201542I235107
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 22 October 2006
9 m awayRef 200642I434410
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 6 January 2014
22 m awayRef 201442I004201
Serious
Vauxhall Senator crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 13 February 2006
26 m awayRef 200642G008402
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Epping Forest, 31 January 1982
28 m awayRef 1982010JB0056
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Epping Forest, 28 April 1986
28 m awayRef 198601JB00252
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bentley Continental
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bentley Continental)
- 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 2022421182218 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 2022.