Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM15 on 17 December 2011 at 10:47 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 10:47 on Saturday 17 December 2011. The 29-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 28-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 10:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52286, longitude 0.29497, in the RM15 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Ockendon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ockendon, Thurrock, RM15 6HX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I413412
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 21 March 2014
14 m awayRef 201442I089503
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 20 March 2019
29 m awayRef 2019420825598
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 8 December 1992
61 m awayRef 19924200F0912
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 4 September 1997
85 m awayRef 19974200F0444
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 12 June 2003
85 m awayRef 20034200F0265
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Thurrock, 28 May 1998
85 m awayRef 19984200F0267
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201142I413412 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.