A13 crash in Basildon on 25 December 2016 at 23:58 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda WW125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A13 in Basildon at 23:58 on Sunday 25 December 2016. The 24-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2016
- Sunday, 23:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda WW125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56471, longitude 0.53127, in the SS13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pitsea South East, Basildon, SS13 2EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420140248
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2016.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A13 in Basildon, 31 August 2016
11 m awayRef 2016420100696
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A13 in Basildon, 29 January 2001
12 m awayRef 20014200B0052
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Basildon, 27 November 2009
14 m awayRef 200942I401111
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A13 in Basildon, 24 March 2015
23 m awayRef 201542I091203
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the A13 in Basildon, 28 May 2021
24 m awayRef 2021421050311
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A13 in Basildon, 21 April 2004
31 m awayRef 20044200B0175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016420140248 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.