Unclassified road crash in Castle Point SS6 on 19 November 2015 at 16:48 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point at 16:48 on Thursday 19 November 2015. The 41-year-old female driver of the Renault Megane and the 21-year-old male driver of the Suzuki Swift were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57744, longitude 0.60147, in the SS6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rayleigh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wheatley, Rochford, SS6 7TQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Castle Point
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420032724
- Council area
- Castle Point
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 127
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2010.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A127 in Rochford, 29 June 2010
6 m awayRef 201042I203606
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 19 November 1993
6 m awayRef 19934200H0806
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A127 in Rochford, 19 April 2016
13 m awayRef 2016420059488
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A127 in Rochford, 21 August 1998
15 m awayRef 19984200J0366
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 1 December 1998
18 m awayRef 19984200J0551
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 24 July 1980
46 m awayRef 1980420090375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Swift)
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 2015420032724 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Castle Point road accident statistics for 2015.