Unclassified road crash in Castle Point SS8 on 6 June 1998 at 17:35 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 and a Mitsubishi Shogun were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point at 17:35 on Saturday 6 June 1998. The 33-year-old male driver of the Mitsubishi Shogun and a 30-year-old female passenger in the Mitsubishi Shogun were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 1998
- Saturday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 323 and Mitsubishi Shogun
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51806, longitude 0.58025, in the SS8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canvey Island.
Map of where the crash happened in Castle Point
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200J0232
- Council area
- Castle Point
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 20 September 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200J0422
Fatal
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 17 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200842I364910
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 4 June 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200J0111
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 23 August 2023
1 m awayRef 2023421345231
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 16 December 1991
10 m awayRef 19914200B0865
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 9 November 1998
10 m awayRef 19984200J0508
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,555 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Shogun)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Shogun)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 19984200J0232 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Castle Point road accident statistics for 1998.