Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM14 on 20 September 1980 at 12:45 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 12:45 on Saturday 20 September 1980. The 18-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 1980
- Saturday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55074, longitude 0.36976, in the RM14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980420060445
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 30 April 2007
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Slight
Scania crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 5 December 2009
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Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 6 January 2024
89 m awayRef 2024421395531
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 7 September 1981
100 m awayRef 1981420060423
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 31 May 1987
100 m awayRef 19874200F0388
Serious
Car crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 20 October 1988
141 m awayRef 19884200F0909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 1980420060445 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thurrock road accident statistics for 1980.