Serious unclassified road crash in Basildon SS14 on 2 September 2014 at 19:44 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 19:44 on Tuesday 2 September 2014. The 12-year-old male driver of the other vehicle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Sep 2014
- Tuesday, 19:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5718, longitude 0.47316, in the SS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Martin's, Basildon, SS14 1NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201442I288209
- 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 unlit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2013.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 9 September 2013
5 m awayRef 201342I270109
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 22 June 1992
8 m awayRef 19924200B0429
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 12 April 2002
16 m awayRef 20024200B0244
Serious
Honda SH50K crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 13 January 1995
16 m awayRef 19954200B0018
Slight
Car crash on the A1321 in Basildon, 10 December 1988
21 m awayRef 19884200B1105
Serious
Car crash on the B1419 in Basildon, 2 October 1983
21 m awayRef 19834200B0643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 12, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 201442I288209 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 2014.