Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM18 on 7 November 1995 at 08:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and an Iveco-Ford lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 08:00 on Tuesday 7 November 1995. The 46-year-old male driver of the Iveco-Ford lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 1995
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Iveco-Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47306, longitude 0.39972, in the RM18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954200F0565
- 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
- Other 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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Iveco-Ford)
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 19954200F0565 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 1995.