Serious unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM18 on 28 January 2007 at 02:15 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 02:15 on Sunday 28 January 2007. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jan 2007
- Sunday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47928, longitude 0.41823, in the RM18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Tilbury, Linford & West Tilbury, Thurrock, RM18 8SH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I028801
- 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
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1994.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 6 December 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200F0815
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 6 January 2003
10 m awayRef 20034200F0013
Serious
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 24 May 2002
22 m awayRef 20024200F0244
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 19 November 1991
36 m awayRef 19914200F0895
Slight
ERF crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 14 August 1998
36 m awayRef 19984200F0441
Fatal
Van crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 1 November 2005
41 m awayRef 200542F049411
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200742I028801 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 2007.