A1124 crash in Colchester on 15 August 2025 at 08:33 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and an Audi Q5 were involved in a crash on the A1124 in Colchester at 08:33 on Friday 15 August 2025. The 43-year-old female driver of the Audi Q5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2025
- Friday, 08:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Audi Q5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89117, longitude 0.828, in the CO3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanway, Colchester, CO3 0PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421635873
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1124
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1124 in Colchester, 5 December 2014
1 m awayRef 201442I415612
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1124 in Colchester, 1 November 2021
1 m awayRef 2021421104728
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A1124 in Colchester, 17 October 2013
2 m awayRef 201342I322210
Slight
Citroen Nemo crash on the A1124 in Colchester, 3 May 2014
2 m awayRef 201442I147805
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A1124 in Colchester, 13 July 2017
4 m awayRef 2017420220877
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1124 in Colchester, 11 April 2019
7 m awayRef 2019420847800
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Audi Q5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q5)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025421635873 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.