B1027 crash in Colchester on 5 February 2025 at 09:10 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo, a Vauxhall Antara and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the B1027 in Colchester at 09:10 on Wednesday 5 February 2025. The 83-year-old female driver of the Toyota Aygo and the 19-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Wednesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Aygo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87734, longitude 0.95823, in the CO4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wivenhoe, Colchester, CO4 3FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421550700
- Council area
- Colchester
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1028
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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B1027 in Colchester, 26 May 2012
10 m awayRef 201242I158705
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the B1027 in Colchester, 5 January 2012
14 m awayRef 201242I001901
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1027 in Colchester, 30 December 2024
17 m awayRef 2024421536267
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B1028 in Colchester, 16 July 2010
20 m awayRef 201042I222907
Slight
Car crash on the B1027 in Colchester, 23 May 1979
20 m awayRef 1979420050408
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B1028 in Colchester, 4 February 2003
20 m awayRef 20034200E0048
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Antara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,231 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Toyota Yaris)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025421550700 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2025.