Serious unclassified road crash in Rochford SS4 on 20 October 2018 at 15:00 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rochford at 15:00 on Saturday 20 October 2018. An 82-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Oct 2018
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58353, longitude 0.70687, 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
- 2018420337398
- Council area
- Rochford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 2008.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 4 August 2008
7 m awayRef 200842I281908
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 8 May 2017
21 m awayRef 2017420182685
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 11 July 2008
23 m awayRef 200842I253507
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 8 April 1995
26 m awayRef 19954200J0146
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 27 August 1995
26 m awayRef 19954200J0374
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 30 August 2009
26 m awayRef 200942I284808
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 82, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2018420337398 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.