A1235 crash in Basildon on 11 October 1996 at 16:25 involving a Zastava Yugo
A Zastava Yugo, a Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A1235 in Basildon at 16:25 on Friday 11 October 1996. The 19-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier and an 11-year-old female passenger in the Zastava Yugo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 1996
- Friday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Zastava Yugo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58511, longitude 0.49036, in the SS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964200B0502
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1235
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 27 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200542B040210
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 9 June 2000
10 m awayRef 20004200B0322
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 28 December 1996
14 m awayRef 19964200B0659
Slight
Mercedes CLS Class crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 7 November 2017
16 m awayRef 2017420237042
Serious
Car crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 10 February 1981
30 m awayRef 1981420020129
Serious
Car crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 30 October 1979
30 m awayRef 1979420020834
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Zastava Yugo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,116 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Zastava Yugo)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 19964200B0502 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.