Unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM16 on 16 December 2018 at 12:44 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 12:44 on Sunday 16 December 2018. The 39-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 12:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4873, longitude 0.36601, in the RM16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chadwell St Mary. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chadwell St Mary, Thurrock, RM16 4JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420351027
- 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
- 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
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 February 1989.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 26 February 1989
50 m awayRef 19894200F0170
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 20 September 1989
72 m awayRef 19894200F0853
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 23 January 1983
72 m awayRef 19834200F0038
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 28 September 2001
74 m awayRef 20014200F0539
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 25 January 1990
76 m awayRef 19904200F0058
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock, 22 April 2007
101 m awayRef 200742I153204
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018420351027 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.