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A126 crash in Thurrock on 22 November 1996 at 19:15 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A126 in Thurrock at 19:15 on Friday 22 November 1996. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Nov 1996
Friday, 19:15
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4765, longitude 0.32242, in the RM17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grays.

Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19964200F0540
Council area
Thurrock
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
126
Road type
One way street or slip road
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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2015.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 19964200F0540 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.