Unclassified road crash in Basildon CM12 on 15 September 2017 at 08:55 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Basildon at 08:55 on Friday 15 September 2017. A 47-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 15 Sep 2017
- Friday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6291, longitude 0.4198, in the CM12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Billericay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Billericay East, Basildon, CM12 9EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Basildon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420219919
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2018.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 18 December 2018
2 m awayRef 2018420351553
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 30 October 2015
5 m awayRef 201542I342310
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 23 June 2013
11 m awayRef 201342I168806
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B1007 in Basildon, 11 November 2006
11 m awayRef 200642I564311
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 16 December 1992
18 m awayRef 19924200B0859
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 7 March 2013
19 m awayRef 201342I063303
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017420219919 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.