Unclassified road crash in Castle Point SS8 on 26 February 2011 at 04:40 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 crashed on an unclassified road in Castle Point at 04:40 on Saturday 26 February 2011. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2011
- Saturday, 04:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota MR2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53222, longitude 0.58426, in the SS8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Canvey Island. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canvey Island Winter Gardens, Castle Point, SS8 9YT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Castle Point
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I053502
- Council area
- Castle Point
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 January 1990.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 14 January 1990
64 m awayRef 19904200B0026
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 3 August 1998
71 m awayRef 19984200J0345
Slight
Car crash on the B1014 in Castle Point, 4 October 1981
78 m awayRef 1981420090536
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 27 July 1988
78 m awayRef 19884200B0674
Slight
Car crash on the B1014 in Castle Point, 8 November 1989
78 m awayRef 19894200B0977
Slight
Mazda crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 30 November 2012
81 m awayRef 201242I386911
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
- 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 201142I053502 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Castle Point road accident statistics for 2011.