Serious unclassified road crash in Tendring CO7 on 22 December 2025 at 01:19 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on an unclassified road in Tendring at 01:19 on Monday 22 December 2025. The 54-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 2025
- Monday, 01:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88088, longitude 1.02213, in the CO7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alresford & Elmstead, Tendring, CO7 7JF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421686474
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 8 March 1996
12 m awayRef 19964200D0111
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 10 January 2001
17 m awayRef 20014200D0020
Serious
Cagiva Mito crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 11 January 2004
22 m awayRef 20044200D0007
Slight
Volkswagen 1300 crash on the A604 in Tendring, 3 November 1993
22 m awayRef 19934200E0873
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 26 October 2015
101 m awayRef 201542I339810
Slight
Lorry crash on the A604 in Tendring, 5 May 1989
124 m awayRef 19894200E0461
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025421686474 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2025.