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Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM16 on 20 February 1983 at 11:15 involving a minibus

A minibus and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 11:15 on Sunday 20 February 1983. A 5-year-old male pedestrian hit by the minibus was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Feb 1983
Sunday, 11:15
Vehicles
2
Minibus and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48238, longitude 0.37054, in the RM16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chadwell St Mary.

Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19834200F0116
Council area
Thurrock
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, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1980.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Minibus

    Minibus or motor caravan

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years

  • Vehicle 2: 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: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Minibus)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 19834200F0116 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 1983.