Unclassified road crash in Basildon SS14 on 20 December 2016 at 13:00 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Citroen Relay van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 13:00 on Tuesday 20 December 2016. The 66-year-old male driver of the Citroen Relay van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Citroen Relay
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58527, longitude 0.46176, in the SS14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420139856
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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, 49 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 June 2006.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 4,462 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Relay
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Relay)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2016420139856 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 2016.