A1235 crash in Basildon on 2 March 2005 at 17:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a car were involved in a crash on the A1235 in Basildon at 17:10 on Wednesday 2 March 2005. A 17-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2005
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58514, longitude 0.49083, in the SS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fryerns, Basildon, SS14 3EU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542B008703
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1235
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2013.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 25 January 2013
2 m awayRef 201342I017801
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 19 May 2001
10 m awayRef 20014200B0240
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 17 September 2003
10 m awayRef 20034200B0452
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 28 November 2002
10 m awayRef 20024200B0644
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 2 August 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200B0375
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1235 in Basildon, 28 June 1999
10 m awayRef 19994200B0305
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 200542B008703 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 2005.