Unclassified road crash in Castle Point SS6 on 13 January 1979 at 12:45 involving a car
Five cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point at 12:45 on Saturday 13 January 1979. The 40-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 1979
- Saturday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 5
- Car and 4 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57649, longitude 0.59771, in the SS6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thundersley and South Benfleet.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979420090019
- Council area
- Castle Point
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 129
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A129 in Castle Point, 7 September 1989
At the same spotRef 19894200B0757
Serious
Car crash on the A127 in Rochford, 12 October 1981
At the same spotRef 1981420090562
Slight
Car crash on the A129 in Castle Point, 2 January 1986
At the same spotRef 19864200B0029
Slight
Van crash on the A127 in Rochford, 11 October 1986
At the same spotRef 19864200H0965
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A127 in Castle Point, 12 July 1989
At the same spotRef 19894200B0573
Slight
Car crash on the A129 in Castle Point, 2 April 1989
At the same spotRef 19894200B0303
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 5: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1979420090019 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Castle Point road accident statistics for 1979.