A129 crash in Basildon on 20 July 2017 at 16:23 involving a Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle
A Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the A129 in Basildon at 16:23 on Thursday 20 July 2017. The 34-year-old male rider of the Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2017
- Thursday, 16:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha FZS 600 and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61134, longitude 0.50821, in the SS12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wickford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castledon & Crouch, Basildon, SS12 0BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420202484
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 129
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 March 1996.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A129 in Basildon, 14 March 1996
4 m awayRef 19964200B0127
Slight
Morris Minor crash on the A129 in Basildon, 3 March 1998
4 m awayRef 19984200B0102
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A129 in Basildon, 28 August 1997
4 m awayRef 19974200B0433
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the A129 in Basildon, 27 July 2013
5 m awayRef 201342I215107
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A129 in Basildon, 15 December 2018
5 m awayRef 2018420350950
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A129 in Basildon, 19 September 2002
9 m awayRef 20024200B0486
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha FZS 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FZS 600)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017420202484 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 2017.