Serious unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 31 May 2022 at 10:40 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 10:40 on Tuesday 31 May 2022. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 May 2022
- Tuesday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i10
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64925, longitude 0.05703, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022421183253
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 23 December 1995
11 m awayRef 199501JO00432
Slight
Car crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 24 May 1989
11 m awayRef 198901JB00413
Slight
Dennis crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 6 February 2007
11 m awayRef 200742I279102
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 21 June 1993
12 m awayRef 199301JB00213
Slight
Car crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 19 June 1991
14 m awayRef 199101JB00228
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 24 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199601JO00025
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2022421183253 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.