M25 crash in Thurrock on 4 June 1994 at 14:40 involving a Mazda MX-5
Four vehicles, including a Mazda MX-5 and a Ford Fiesta, were involved in a crash on the M25 in Thurrock at 14:40 on Saturday 4 June 1994. The 23-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 1994
- Saturday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 4
- Mazda MX-5 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50167, longitude 0.26823, in the RM15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944200F0386
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 13
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 13 July 1994.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 13 July 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200F0448
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 22 March 1997
At the same spotRef 19974200F0134
Slight
Honda Prelude crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 3 June 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200F0237
Fatal
Mercedes A Class crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 2 April 2013
9 m awayRef 201342I088904
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 4 August 2013
9 m awayRef 201342I223708
Slight
Volvo crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 22 April 2016
9 m awayRef 2016420060878
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Ford Escort)
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 19944200F0386 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 1994.