A1306 crash in Thurrock on 19 June 1997 at 22:17 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada and a Rover Montego were involved in a crash on the A1306 in Thurrock at 22:17 on Thursday 19 June 1997. The 46-year-old female driver of the Rover Montego was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 1997
- Thursday, 22:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Granada and Rover Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4896, longitude 0.27368, in the RM20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974200F0300
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1306
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 July 1998.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A1306 in Thurrock, 31 July 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200F0418
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A1306 in Thurrock, 24 November 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200F0569
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1306 in Thurrock, 11 May 2015
9 m awayRef 201542I183405
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A1306 in Thurrock, 12 April 2017
11 m awayRef 2017420187364
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A1306 in Thurrock, 13 July 2001
14 m awayRef 20014200F0402
Serious
Mazda B2500 crash on the A1306 in Thurrock, 7 January 2006
14 m awayRef 200642F000901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,933 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover Montego)
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 19974200F0300 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 1997.