A128 crash in Thurrock on 7 December 2016 at 19:20 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A car and a Peugeot Partner van were involved in a crash on the A128 in Thurrock at 19:20 on Wednesday 7 December 2016. The 33-year-old male driver of the car and the 31-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Partner van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53625, longitude 0.37452, in the RM16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orsett, Horndon & Bulphan, Thurrock, RM16 3EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420135380
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 128
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 February 2002.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 18 February 2002
5 m awayRef 20024200F0070
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 5 March 2002
5 m awayRef 20024200F0111
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 3 February 2000
5 m awayRef 20004200F0064
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 10 February 2003
5 m awayRef 20034200F0054
Serious
Lorry crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 21 November 2015
10 m awayRef 2015420032879
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 1 August 1991
11 m awayRef 19914200F0593
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot Partner)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016420135380 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 2016.