Unclassified road crash in Basildon SS16 on 24 February 1996 at 19:45 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo, a Toyota Carina and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 19:45 on Saturday 24 February 1996. The 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and a 24-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 1996
- Saturday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Mondeo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56052, longitude 0.42366, in the SS16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964200B0078
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 19964200B0078 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 1996.