M25 crash in Thurrock on 12 February 2018 at 18:47 involving a Mercedes B Class
A car and a Mercedes B Class were involved in a crash on the M25 in Thurrock at 18:47 on Monday 12 February 2018. A 37-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes B Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2018
- Monday, 18:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes B Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52972, longitude 0.27794, in the RM15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ockendon, Thurrock, RM15 5SD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420267338
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1998.
Slight
MAN crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 6 April 1998
18 m awayRef 19984200F0157
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 18 September 1992
18 m awayRef 19924200F0644
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 11 May 1992
18 m awayRef 19924200F0298
Serious
Renault crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 31 July 2007
18 m awayRef 200742I301107
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 13 November 2003
30 m awayRef 20034200F0535
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the M25 in Thurrock, 21 November 2003
30 m awayRef 20034200F0553
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes B Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes B Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018420267338 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thurrock road accident statistics for 2018.