A127 crash in Southend-on-Sea on 14 January 2018 at 20:07 involving a Jaguar XE Series
A Jaguar XE Series and a Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A127 in Southend-on-Sea at 20:07 on Sunday 14 January 2018. A 32-year-old female passenger on the Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2018
- Sunday, 20:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar XE Series and Kawasaki ZX900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56302, longitude 0.66633, in the SS0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southend-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blenheim Park, Southend-on-Sea, SS0 0EU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southend-on-Sea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420257685
- Council area
- Southend-on-Sea
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 127
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1015
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2013.
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A127 in Southend-on-Sea, 14 January 2013
1 m awayRef 201342I008001
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A127 in Southend-on-Sea, 29 March 2021
1 m awayRef 2021421031407
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A127 in Southend-on-Sea, 4 September 2002
4 m awayRef 20024200H0434
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A127 in Southend-on-Sea, 29 September 2002
4 m awayRef 20024200H0504
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A127 in Southend-on-Sea, 2 July 1991
8 m awayRef 19914200H0530
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A127 in Southend-on-Sea, 14 August 2025
9 m awayRef 2025421629033
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XE Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX900
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX900)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018420257685 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southend-on-Sea road accident statistics for 2018.