Unclassified road crash in Basildon SS15 on 16 November 2007 at 18:35 involving a Mercedes A Class
A car and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 18:35 on Friday 16 November 2007. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes A Class was 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
- 16 Nov 2007
- Friday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57876, longitude 0.42192, in the SS15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Laindon Park, Basildon, SS15 5QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I518611
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 27 March 1992
At the same spotRef 19924200B0198
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 13 September 2001
At the same spotRef 20014200B0444
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 1 December 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200B0631
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A127 in Basildon, 14 October 2004
10 m awayRef 20044200B0509
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 16 October 2004
10 m awayRef 20044200B0508
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 22 January 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200B0028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- 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 200742I518611 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.