Unclassified road crash in Basildon SS14 on 21 December 2000 at 18:15 involving a Vauxhall Astramax
A Vauxhall Astramax and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 18:15 on Thursday 21 December 2000. The 45-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astramax 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
- 21 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astramax and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57767, longitude 0.46978, in the SS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200B0685
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 2016.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 15 July 2016
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 12 February 2009
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 23 August 1982
42 m awayRef 1982420020631
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 23 July 1979
42 m awayRef 1979420020503
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 10 September 1983
76 m awayRef 19834200B0575
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 30 March 1990
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astramax
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astramax)
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 20004200B0685 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.