Serious unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM17 on 8 February 2003 at 23:55 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 23:55 on Saturday 8 February 2003. A male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Feb 2003
- Saturday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47326, longitude 0.32459, in the RM17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grays. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grays Town, Thurrock, RM17 6NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034200F0067
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 1993.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 21 July 1993
At the same spotRef 19934200F0539
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 10 July 2024
20 m awayRef 2024421465595
Serious
Car crash on the B189 in Thurrock, 7 August 2007
22 m awayRef 200742I325008
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 13 April 1992
41 m awayRef 19924200F0300
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 16 April 1987
41 m awayRef 19874200F0280
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 11 June 1985
41 m awayRef 19854200F0421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 20034200F0067 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thurrock road accident statistics for 2003.