Serious B186 crash in Thurrock on 6 March 2011 at 20:30 involving a Nissan Cabstar van
A Nissan Cabstar van and a Jeep Cherokee were involved in a crash on the B186 in Thurrock at 20:30 on Sunday 6 March 2011. The 47-year-old male driver of the Nissan Cabstar van was seriously injured and the 44-year-old male driver of the Jeep Cherokee and a 38-year-old female passenger in the Jeep Cherokee were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Mar 2011
- Sunday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Cabstar and Jeep Cherokee
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49923, longitude 0.29825, in the RM16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stifford, Thurrock, RM16 5UP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I061403
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 186
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 25 February 2001
10 m awayRef 20014200F0111
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 17 June 1997
20 m awayRef 19974200F0297
Serious
Car crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 3 March 1983
28 m awayRef 19834200F0144
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 20 June 2025
32 m awayRef 2025421618276
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 3 June 2004
81 m awayRef 20044200F0251
Slight
Car crash on the B186 in Thurrock, 26 May 1988
82 m awayRef 19884200F0416
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Cabstar
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,953 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Cabstar)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jeep Cherokee)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jeep Cherokee)
- 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 201142I061403 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 2011.