Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM18 on 26 February 2004 at 00:01 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 00:01 on Thursday 26 February 2004. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2004
- Thursday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46975, longitude 0.38302, in the RM18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tilbury St Chads, Thurrock, RM18 8HX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200F0086
- 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
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 November 2009.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 9 November 2009
20 m awayRef 200942I381111
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 30 May 2005
30 m awayRef 200542F022705
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 28 December 2016
102 m awayRef 2016420140401
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 5 March 1982
158 m awayRef 1982420060098
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 12 August 2004
161 m awayRef 20044200F0379
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 16 February 2014
192 m awayRef 201442I053102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 20044200F0086 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 2004.