A129 crash in Basildon on 30 September 2001 at 20:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A129 in Basildon at 20:15 on Sunday 30 September 2001. The 28-year-old female driver and a 2-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2001
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6095, longitude 0.55023, in the SS11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wickford North, Basildon, SS11 8PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20014200B0486
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 129
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2024.
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A129 in Basildon, 26 January 2024
13 m awayRef 2024421403079
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A129 in Basildon, 28 January 1998
14 m awayRef 19984200B0042
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A129 in Basildon, 13 September 2024
20 m awayRef 2024421495572
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A129 in Basildon, 13 March 2002
32 m awayRef 20024200B0139
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A129 in Basildon, 12 January 2000
42 m awayRef 20004200B0030
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on the A129 in Basildon, 25 July 1996
42 m awayRef 19964200B0366
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 20014200B0486 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.