A13 crash in Thurrock on 14 August 2007 at 07:55 involving a Yamaha XP 500 motorcycle
A Yamaha XP 500 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A13 in Thurrock at 07:55 on Tuesday 14 August 2007. The 58-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XP 500 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2007
- Tuesday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha XP 500 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53368, longitude 0.43596, in the SS17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the The Homesteads & Stanford-le-Hope North, Thurrock, SS17 8BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I326508
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 2015.
Slight
Chevrolet Tacuma crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 17 October 2015
9 m awayRef 201542I328510
Fatal
Iveco-Ford crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 11 February 2008
10 m awayRef 200842I043802
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 18 December 2006
20 m awayRef 200642I554012
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 6 November 2025
21 m awayRef 2025421664239
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 20 January 2004
22 m awayRef 20044200F0070
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A13 in Thurrock, 8 April 2004
22 m awayRef 20044200F0156
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XP 500
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 58, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XP 500)
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 200742I326508 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.