A13 crash in Thurrock on 15 February 2007 at 19:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A lorry and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A13 in Thurrock at 19:20 on Thursday 15 February 2007. The 25-year-old female driver of the lorry was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2007
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5026, longitude 0.35519, in the RM16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orsett, Horndon & Bulphan, Thurrock, RM16 3AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I072902
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2021.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B188 in Thurrock, 16 July 2021
4 m awayRef 2021421066926
Serious
Car crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 11 May 1983
45 m awayRef 19834200F0330
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 1 July 1994
54 m awayRef 19944200F0455
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the B188 in Thurrock, 14 June 2025
58 m awayRef 2025421602803
Serious
Scania crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 18 October 2001
60 m awayRef 20014200F0568
Serious
Car crash on the B188 in Thurrock, 13 October 2001
61 m awayRef 20014200F0563
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 200742I072902 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.