Serious B186 crash in Thurrock on 22 July 1996 at 14:00 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B186 in Thurrock at 14:00 on Monday 22 July 1996. The 68-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jul 1996
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49959, longitude 0.29636, in the RM16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964200F0307
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 186
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 9 October 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200F0676
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 6 January 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200F0033
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 3 February 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200F0065
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 17 October 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200F0462
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 3 January 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200F0011
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 24 May 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200F0245
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 79 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 68, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 19964200F0307 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 1996.