Serious unclassified road crash in Havering RM12 on 23 February 2001 at 17:40 involving a Ford Escort
Two Ford Escorts were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 17:40 on Friday 23 February 2001. The 30-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and a female passenger in vehicle 2 were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Feb 2001
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56172, longitude 0.19549, in the RM12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hylands & Harrow Lodge, Havering, RM12 4EW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101KD00180
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2022.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200101KD00180 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2001.