B186 crash in Thurrock on 22 December 2003 at 18:00 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B186 in Thurrock at 18:00 on Monday 22 December 2003. The 18-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2003
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Puma and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4838, longitude 0.2822, in the RM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chafford Hundred, West Thurrock and Purfleet-on-Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Thurrock & South Stifford, Thurrock, RM20 3BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034200F0640
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 186
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2011.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 11 June 2011
14 m awayRef 201142I179706
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 26 September 2002
20 m awayRef 20024200F0495
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 30 November 2025
21 m awayRef 2025421682416
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 18 December 1994
28 m awayRef 19944200F0821
Serious
Scania crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 27 October 1995
40 m awayRef 19954200F0510
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 19 May 2001
45 m awayRef 20014200F0267
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 20034200F0640 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.