Serious A1016 crash in Chelmsford on 25 November 2025 at 13:39 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on the A1016 in Chelmsford at 13:39 on Tuesday 25 November 2025. The 37-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Nov 2025
- Tuesday, 13:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74209, longitude 0.46925, in the CM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chelmsford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marconi, Chelmsford, CM1 1SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421674092
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1016
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 15 metres away, was a fatal crash on 3 March 2008.
Fatal
Ford KA crash on the A138 in Chelmsford, 3 March 2008
15 m awayRef 200842I073103
Slight
Car crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 13 October 1985
24 m awayRef 19854200C1161
Slight
Honda crash on the A1016 in Chelmsford, 20 December 2021
39 m awayRef 2021421124930
Slight
Car crash on the A138 in Chelmsford, 13 November 1996
75 m awayRef 19964200C0722
Slight
Car crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 10 May 1983
77 m awayRef 19834200C0454
Slight
Car crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 27 March 1979
77 m awayRef 1979420030218
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025421674092 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2025.