Serious unclassified road crash in Rochford SS6 on 15 November 2017 at 17:35 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rochford at 17:35 on Wednesday 15 November 2017. A 52-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2017
- Wednesday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60401, longitude 0.60065, in the SS6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rayleigh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420240146
- Council area
- Rochford
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2015.
Slight
Rover 75 crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 29 March 2015
9 m awayRef 201542I093403
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 21 February 1997
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 12 November 1982
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 5 November 1980
35 m awayRef 1980420090570
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 16 March 2017
37 m awayRef 2017420164378
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 26 April 2013
43 m awayRef 201342I113004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017420240146 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rochford road accident statistics for 2017.