B1010 crash in Maldon on 28 December 2025 at 17:32 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B1010 in Maldon at 17:32 on Sunday 28 December 2025. The 17-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 and the 18-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2025
- Sunday, 17:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6568, longitude 0.68384, in the CM3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Purleigh, Maldon, CM3 6NW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421688729
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1010
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 1010
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
- 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 April 2025.
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the B1010 in Maldon, 5 April 2025
1 m awayRef 2025421574121
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1010 in Maldon, 24 March 2023
2 m awayRef 2023421290169
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the B1012 in Maldon, 5 November 2021
3 m awayRef 2021421107670
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the B1010 in Maldon, 5 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022421262749
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B1010 in Maldon, 23 October 2025
3 m awayRef 2025421658339
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 8 February 1998
5 m awayRef 19984200C0081
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025421688729 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2025.