Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM20 on 27 October 1997 at 06:18 involving a Citroen BX
A Citroen BX crashed on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 06:18 on Monday 27 October 1997. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 1997
- Monday, 06:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen BX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47731, longitude 0.26298, in the RM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chafford Hundred, West Thurrock and Purfleet-on-Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974200F0558
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen BX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen BX)
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 19974200F0558 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.