Serious unclassified road crash in Castle Point SS7 on 9 November 2017 at 13:50 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max crashed on an unclassified road in Castle Point at 13:50 on Thursday 9 November 2017. The 65-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Nov 2017
- Thursday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57068, longitude 0.56948, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420237968
- Council area
- Castle Point
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2017.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 5 March 2017
4 m awayRef 2017420160272
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 3 April 1999
6 m awayRef 19994200J0147
Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 12 November 1993
6 m awayRef 19934200B0800
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 21 December 2016
11 m awayRef 2016420139842
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 30 October 1994
16 m awayRef 19944200J0345
Slight
Mazda B2000 crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 7 December 1995
16 m awayRef 19954200J0556
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford C-Max)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017420237968 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.