Unclassified road crash in Basildon CM12 on 14 February 2007 at 21:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 21:15 on Wednesday 14 February 2007. The 18-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 16-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2007
- Wednesday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64163, longitude 0.41703, in the CM12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Billericay.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I071702
- Council area
- Basildon
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 June 2001.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 19 June 2001
30 m awayRef 20014200B0293
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 60 crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 15 April 1996
108 m awayRef 19964200B0185
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 31 July 2022
130 m awayRef 2022421204220
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 18 February 1989
179 m awayRef 19894200B0148
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 30 November 1985
184 m awayRef 19854200B0911
Slight
Volkswagen 1200 crash on the A176 in Basildon, 23 September 1990
200 m awayRef 19904200B0812
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 200742I071702 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 2007.