Unclassified road crash in Basildon CM12 on 10 September 2017 at 19:12 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Basildon at 19:12 on Sunday 10 September 2017. An 80-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and the 88-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2017
- Sunday, 19:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63809, longitude 0.41604, in the CM12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Billericay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Billericay West, Basildon, CM12 0BB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420218391
- Council area
- Basildon
- 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
- Raining, 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%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 88 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 88, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017420218391 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.