Serious unclassified road crash in Basildon SS14 on 17 November 2001 at 02:20 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Basildon at 02:20 on Saturday 17 November 2001. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Nov 2001
- Saturday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xantia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56842, longitude 0.45615, in the SS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Martin's, Basildon, SS14 1DU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20014200B0551
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 December 2010.
Serious
Yamaha SR 125 crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 27 December 2010
10 m awayRef 201042I420712
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 19 August 1995
10 m awayRef 19954200B0394
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 13 October 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200B0540
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 1 December 1995
10 m awayRef 19954200B0609
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 14 January 2001
10 m awayRef 20014200B0014
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 19 February 2008
20 m awayRef 200842I067102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 20014200B0551 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.