A132 crash in Basildon on 14 May 2001 at 13:00 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
An Iveco-Ford lorry, a Mercedes lorry and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A132 in Basildon at 13:00 on Monday 14 May 2001. A 23-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2001
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Iveco-Ford and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62786, longitude 0.55776, in the SS11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rettendon and Runwell, Chelmsford, SS11 7RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20014200B0233
- 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
- 132
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 7 October 2004
10 m awayRef 20044200B0500
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A132 in Basildon, 1 January 2001
14 m awayRef 20014200B0140
Serious
Car crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 13 May 1985
36 m awayRef 19854200C0546
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A132 in Basildon, 6 September 1993
36 m awayRef 19934200B0634
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 22 April 2018
37 m awayRef 2018420304335
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 19 March 2006
45 m awayRef 200642C016603
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
- 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 20014200B0233 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 2001.