Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM17 on 20 December 1995 at 18:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 18:45 on Wednesday 20 December 1995. The 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 38-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1995
- Wednesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4828, longitude 0.3406, in the RM17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grays.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954200F0639
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 1998.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 22 September 1998
10 m awayRef 19984200F0516
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Thurrock, 1 May 1998
14 m awayRef 19984200F0222
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 9 September 2024
15 m awayRef 2024421489228
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 25 August 1987
28 m awayRef 19874200F0628
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Thurrock, 21 April 1998
71 m awayRef 19984200F0209
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 30 August 1996
81 m awayRef 19964200F0376
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 19954200F0639 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.