B148 crash in Basildon on 21 April 2010 at 16:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Hyundai Getz were involved in a crash on the B148 in Basildon at 16:20 on Wednesday 21 April 2010. A 28-year-old female passenger in the Hyundai Getz was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2010
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57716, longitude 0.42963, 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
- 201042I122404
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 148
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2001.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B148 in Basildon, 26 December 2001
At the same spotRef 20014200B0658
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B148 in Basildon, 27 January 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200B0052
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B148 in Basildon, 15 May 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200B0333
Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on the B148 in Basildon, 23 January 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200B0032
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the B148 in Basildon, 22 May 2002
At the same spotRef 20024200B0279
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B148 in Basildon, 29 November 2001
At the same spotRef 20014200B0575
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Getz)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201042I122404 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 2010.