Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM17 on 17 December 2015 at 15:35 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 15:35 on Thursday 17 December 2015. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47428, longitude 0.33052, in the RM17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grays. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grays Town, Thurrock, RM17 6NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420035948
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
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 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 23 August 1993
14 m awayRef 19934200F0597
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 8 July 1995
14 m awayRef 19954200F0310
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 11 March 1994
22 m awayRef 19944200F0191
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 18 June 1997
22 m awayRef 19974200F0298
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 11 May 2004
32 m awayRef 20044200F0218
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 4 May 2001
32 m awayRef 20014200F0236
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015420035948 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 2015.