Serious unclassified road crash in Rochford SS4 on 16 December 2005 at 18:57 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rochford at 18:57 on Friday 16 December 2005. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2005
- Friday, 18:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61799, longitude 0.74748, in the SS4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rochford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542J052012
- Council area
- Rochford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1995.
Slight
Volkswagen crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 23 June 1995
82 m awayRef 19954200J0278
Fatal
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 18 August 2024
95 m awayRef 2024421481128
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 11 September 1994
100 m awayRef 19944200J0272
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 26 September 1993
113 m awayRef 19934200H0686
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 26 May 1982
141 m awayRef 1982420080253
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 19 August 1990
200 m awayRef 19904200H0765
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 200542J052012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rochford road accident statistics for 2005.