Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM18 on 9 December 1996 at 13:05 involving a Ford Sierra taxi
A Ford Sierra taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 13:05 on Monday 9 December 1996. A 29-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 1996
- Monday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45906, longitude 0.36732, in the RM18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tilbury.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964200F0586
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1993.
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Serious
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 13 April 1996
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 19964200F0586 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.