Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM17 on 28 March 2018 at 07:55 involving a Toyota Prius taxi
A car and a Toyota Prius taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 07:55 on Wednesday 28 March 2018. The 44-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2018
- Wednesday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47849, longitude 0.35481, in the RM17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Thurrock Rectory, Thurrock, RM17 6UD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420280129
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 126
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 20 September 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 20 September 2016
1 m awayRef 2016420107870
Serious
Toyota crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 17 July 2023
1 m awayRef 2023421330303
Slight
BMW M1 crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 20 June 2021
1 m awayRef 2021421057658
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 23 February 2015
2 m awayRef 201542I075502
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 30 December 2007
2 m awayRef 200742I537512
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 20 May 2019
2 m awayRef 2019420840817
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Prius)
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 2018420280129 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.