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Serious A127 crash in Basildon on 29 December 1981 at 19:00 involving a car

A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A127 in Basildon at 19:00 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. The 31-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Dec 1981
Tuesday, 19:00
Vehicles
2
Car and other vehicle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58927, longitude 0.54791, in the SS12 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Basildon

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981420021032
Council area
Basildon
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
127
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2008.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

  • Vehicle 2: Other vehicle

    Towing and articulation
    Other tow
    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1981420021032 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basildon road accident statistics for 1981.