C road crash in Thurrock SS17 on 23 February 1998 at 20:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on a C road in Thurrock at 20:10 on Monday 23 February 1998. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 1998
- Monday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51449, longitude 0.42309, in the SS17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stanford-le-Hope.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200F0099
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 1993.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 15 April 1993
10 m awayRef 19934200F0254
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 10 June 1994
10 m awayRef 19944200F0398
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 16 October 2025
14 m awayRef 2025421663251
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 19 September 1994
14 m awayRef 19944200F0618
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 21 February 2018
20 m awayRef 2018420270287
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 3 June 1995
22 m awayRef 19954200F0252
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 19984200F0099 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 1998.