Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM20 on 23 August 2013 at 17:20 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 17:20 on Friday 23 August 2013. The 42-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2013
- Friday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Meriva and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48652, longitude 0.2742, in the RM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chafford Hundred, West Thurrock and Purfleet-on-Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Thurrock & South Stifford, Thurrock, RM20 3FN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I247808
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 2 December 1998
7 m awayRef 19984200F0709
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 11 July 2003
7 m awayRef 20034200F0318
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 11 December 2000
21 m awayRef 20004200F0703
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 5 April 2003
43 m awayRef 20034200F0150
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 11 February 1989
45 m awayRef 19894200F0120
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 13 December 2013
48 m awayRef 201342I398512
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201342I247808 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 2013.