Serious unclassified road crash in Rochford SS4 on 26 May 2018 at 18:00
A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in Rochford at 18:00 on Saturday 26 May 2018. The 33-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 May 2018
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58857, longitude 0.69802, in the SS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rochford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roche South, Rochford, SS4 1GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rochford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420296427
- Council area
- Rochford
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 April 2007.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 27 April 2007
54 m awayRef 200742I157404
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 18 June 2025
63 m awayRef 2025421604704
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 22 August 2005
72 m awayRef 200542J031608
Slight
Suzuki GSF 650 crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 11 September 2010
92 m awayRef 201042I289809
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 6 August 1994
92 m awayRef 19944200J0216
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 7 January 2000
93 m awayRef 20004200J0007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 660 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018420296427 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 2018.