Unclassified road crash in Basildon SS15 on 13 April 2012 at 01:38 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Basildon at 01:38 on Friday 13 April 2012. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2012
- Friday, 01:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58805, longitude 0.4292, in the SS15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burstead, Basildon, SS15 4DE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201242I106904
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 August 1990.
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A176 in Basildon, 4 August 1990
22 m awayRef 19904200B0659
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 7 March 1986
22 m awayRef 19864200B0198
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 14 March 1990
22 m awayRef 19904200B0223
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 7 July 1998
30 m awayRef 19984200B0335
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 8 April 2004
40 m awayRef 20044200B0147
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 12 September 2010
40 m awayRef 201042I299209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201242I106904 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 2012.