A13 crash in Basildon on 7 December 2000 at 23:31 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A13 in Basildon at 23:31 on Thursday 7 December 2000. The 56-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and the 17-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 23:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56707, longitude 0.54093, in the SS13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200B0668
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1464
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2004.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A13 in Basildon, 7 June 2004
10 m awayRef 20044200B0275
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B1464 in Basildon, 14 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201142I406112
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A13 in Castle Point, 28 November 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200J0557
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A13 in Basildon, 20 September 1992
10 m awayRef 19924200B0620
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1464 in Basildon, 19 January 2004
10 m awayRef 20044200B0030
Slight
Scania crash on the A13 in Basildon, 18 May 2001
10 m awayRef 20014200B0234
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 20004200B0668 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 2000.