Serious unclassified road crash in Basildon SS16 on 13 January 2003 at 12:20 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and an LDV 400 Series van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 12:20 on Monday 13 January 2003. The 27-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jan 2003
- Monday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and LDV 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56672, longitude 0.42113, in the SS16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lee Chapel North, Basildon, SS15 6NL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034200B0010
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 1995.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 31 March 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200B0162
Serious
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 14 October 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200B0511
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 8 April 1987
At the same spotRef 19874200B0205
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 17 July 2002
10 m awayRef 20024200B0365
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 2 May 2015
12 m awayRef 201542I133405
Serious
Yamaha XT 125 crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 30 July 2011
70 m awayRef 201142I234807
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: LDV 400 Series
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 20034200B0010 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 2003.