Skip to main content
CrashStats

Serious A132 crash in Basildon on 28 November 2001 at 00:10 involving a Rover Vitesse

A Rover Vitesse crashed on the A132 in Basildon at 00:10 on Wednesday 28 November 2001. The 25-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
28 Nov 2001
Wednesday, 00:10
Vehicles
1
Rover Vitesse
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60001, longitude 0.51879, in the SS12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wickford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castledon & Crouch, Basildon, SS12 0QB area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Basildon

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
20014200B0573
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
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
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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2011.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover Vitesse

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years
    Engine capacity
    2,675 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    12 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Vitesse)

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 20014200B0573 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.