Unclassified road crash in Basildon CM12 on 15 December 1998 at 07:50 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A car and a Vauxhall Combo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 07:50 on Tuesday 15 December 1998. The 29-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 1998
- Tuesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61448, longitude 0.42379, in the CM12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200B0645
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1997.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 25 November 1997
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 27 July 1997
At the same spotRef 19974200B0391
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 9 January 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200B0010
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 25 May 1981
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 28 October 1982
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 27 June 1997
32 m awayRef 19974200B0329
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 19984200B0645 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basildon road accident statistics for 1998.