A126 crash in Thurrock on 27 December 2003 at 12:20 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A126 in Thurrock at 12:20 on Saturday 27 December 2003. A female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2003
- Saturday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45263, longitude 0.36687, in the RM18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tilbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034200F0628
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 126
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 May 2002.
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 16 May 2002
14 m awayRef 20024200F0237
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 1 November 1990
51 m awayRef 19904200F1072
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 14 August 2008
112 m awayRef 200842I297008
Slight
ERF crash on a C road in Thurrock, 2 January 1998
112 m awayRef 19984200F0005
Slight
Van crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 20 September 1980
121 m awayRef 1980420060449
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 15 December 1993
124 m awayRef 19934200F0976
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 20034200F0628 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.