14/12/95 - Statement of KEVIN DAVID TARBUCK

NAME: KEVIN DAVID TARBUCK
AGE / DATE OF BIRTH: 35 20041960
Who states:- This statement consisting of 002 pages, each signed by me, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that if it is tendered in evidence I shall be liable to prosecution if i have wilfully stated in it anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.
DATED: 141295
K D TARBUCK (SIGNED)

I am the above described person and I reside at the address overleaf. I work for Sutcliffe Industrial Services Ltd who at present have a contract at Hanningfield water treatment works. When I finish work I leave the site and turn right onto the A130 towards Southend. I have been working on that site for about 5 weeks and have travelled along that road every evening during that period.

At about 1940 hours on Wednesday 061295 I finished work and started my journey home, as I approached Rettendon along the A130 I had just passed White House Farm on the left hand side and was approaching a small lane again on the left hand side, as I got nearer to the lane a white Ford Escort van emerged from the lane and turned left towards Rettendon in front of me.

I only saw that it had one male person in it who was driving. The reason I remember this is that in pulling out in front of me it caused me to brake and because it was icy and snowing I thought what an idiot he was. The vehicle then accelerated away from me. I followed but by the time I had reached Rettendon Turnpike roundabout the van was nowhere to be seen.

I would think that the van was a D or E suffix due to the style of the vehicle. I would not be able to identify the driver again. I would estimate the time that this happened at about 1950 hours. At the time of the incident it was dark and snowing, I had my windscreen wipers on and my headlights, in spite of these conditions visibility was fairly good. There was no other vehicle immediately in front of me nor behind me.

If the van had waited for me pass he could have pulled out without affecting anybody. The vehicle was in my sight for about 15 seconds and the nearest I was to it was about 30 yards.
K D TARBUCK SIGNED

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