Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM15 on 3 October 1994 at 06:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 06:20 on Monday 3 October 1994. The 49-year-old male driver and a 43-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 1994
- Monday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49292, longitude 0.26016, 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
- 19944200F0613
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 11 June 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 11 June 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200F0261
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 14 July 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200F0326
Slight
Volkswagen crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 12 November 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200F0600
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 22 May 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200F0205
Serious
Lancia Delta crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 14 January 1995
10 m awayRef 19954200F0029
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 17 November 1992
10 m awayRef 19924200F0821
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 19944200F0613 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.