Unclassified road crash in Rochford SS6 on 21 December 1982 at 15:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rochford at 15:00 on Tuesday 21 December 1982. The 17-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1982
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58765, longitude 0.62145, in the SS6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rayleigh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982420090744
- Council area
- Rochford
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1992.
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, 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 1982420090744 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rochford road accident statistics for 1982.