Serious A13 crash in Castle Point on 19 November 2019 at 08:33 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A13 in Castle Point at 08:33 on Tuesday 19 November 2019. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Nov 2019
- Tuesday, 08:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56023, longitude 0.59353, in the SS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thundersley and South Benfleet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thundersley South, Castle Point, SS7 3DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Castle Point
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019420900033
- Council area
- Castle Point
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Castle Point, 14 October 2016
3 m awayRef 2016420116203
Serious
Dennis crash on the A13 in Castle Point, 31 August 2000
3 m awayRef 20004200J0433
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A13 in Castle Point, 16 July 2020
4 m awayRef 2020420966494
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A13 in Castle Point, 18 September 1999
11 m awayRef 19994200J0467
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A13 in Castle Point, 22 October 1995
11 m awayRef 19954200J0483
Serious
Rover 100 Series crash on the A13 in Castle Point, 10 December 1996
11 m awayRef 19964200J0554
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2019420900033 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Castle Point road accident statistics for 2019.