Unclassified road crash in Castle Point SS7 on 5 March 2017 at 00:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Castle Point at 00:25 on Sunday 5 March 2017. A 46-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
- 5 Mar 2017
- Sunday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57067, longitude 0.56953, in the SS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thundersley and South Benfleet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tarpots, Castle Point, SS7 3EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Castle Point
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420160272
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 November 2017.
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 9 November 2017
4 m awayRef 2017420237968
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 3 April 1999
9 m awayRef 19994200J0147
Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 12 November 1993
9 m awayRef 19934200B0800
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 6 June 1991
13 m awayRef 19914200B0318
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 21 December 2016
15 m awayRef 2016420139842
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 24 April 2020
17 m awayRef 2020420947865
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017420160272 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 2017.