A127 crash in Basildon on 20 December 1986 at 23:36 involving a car

A car crashed on the A127 in Basildon at 23:36 on Saturday 20 December 1986. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 20 Dec 1986; Saturday, 23:36
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19864200B1065
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: 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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
Lane or location
Not on carriageway
Skidding and overturning
Skidded and overturned
Leaving the carriageway
Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
Hit object off carriageway
Central crash barrier
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
28 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Female, aged 28, 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 19864200B1065 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 1986.