A1169 crash in Harlow on 9 December 2025 at 15:35 involving a Dacia Sandero
A Dacia Sandero and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A1169 in Harlow at 15:35 on Tuesday 9 December 2025. The 66-year-old female driver of the Dacia Sandero, the 61-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and an 83-year-old female passenger in the Dacia Sandero were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dacia Sandero and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77901, longitude 0.09024, in the CM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Parndon & Town Centre, Harlow, CM20 2HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harlow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421680762
- Council area
- Harlow
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1169
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 September 2020.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 14 September 2020
3 m awayRef 2020420981117
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 2 April 1998
6 m awayRef 19984200G0235
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 23 September 1996
6 m awayRef 19964200G0716
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 24 June 2011
6 m awayRef 201142I200506
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A1169 in Harlow, 13 August 1996
6 m awayRef 19964200G0605
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 15 February 2016
7 m awayRef 2016420045498
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dacia Sandero)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dacia Sandero)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2025421680762 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 2025.