Serious B186 crash in Brentwood on 26 August 2025 at 15:49 involving a Kia Venga
A Kia Venga and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B186 in Brentwood at 15:49 on Tuesday 26 August 2025. The 21-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured and the 84-year-old female driver of the Kia Venga was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Aug 2025
- Tuesday, 15:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Venga and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57375, longitude 0.30027, in the CM13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herongate, Ingrave & West Horndon, Brentwood, CM13 3JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brentwood
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421633603
- Council area
- Brentwood
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 186
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 186
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2019.
Slight
Yamaha NS 50 crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 4 October 2019
At the same spotRef 2019420884661
Slight
Sym Symphony crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 21 February 2020
2 m awayRef 2020420932769
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 13 September 2017
2 m awayRef 2017420240874
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 15 March 2018
3 m awayRef 2018420280863
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 3 July 2021
3 m awayRef 2021421062421
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B186 in Brentwood, 25 July 2017
3 m awayRef 2017420203916
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Venga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,084 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Venga)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025421633603 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brentwood road accident statistics for 2025.