Unclassified road crash in Basildon SS16 on 26 March 2011 at 01:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Basildon at 01:00 on Saturday 26 March 2011. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2011
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56387, longitude 0.46326, in the SS16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nethermayne, Basildon, SS16 5HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I095203
- Council area
- Basildon
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 1993.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 30 December 1993
10 m awayRef 19934200B0931
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 9 November 2010
14 m awayRef 201042I372311
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 8 February 1995
14 m awayRef 19954200B0060
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 9 November 2009
20 m awayRef 200942I386111
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 17 January 1986
36 m awayRef 19864200B0045
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 24 March 1986
36 m awayRef 19864200B0231
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 201142I095203 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 2011.