Serious unclassified road crash in Havering RM5 on 30 January 2002 at 12:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Fiat Marea were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 12:30 on Wednesday 30 January 2002. The 30-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class and the 40-year-old female driver of the Fiat Marea were seriously injured and a 2-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Fiat Marea
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60545, longitude 0.15558, in the RM5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Havering-atte-Bower, Havering, RM5 2QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201KD00097
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2004.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 4 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200401KD50088
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 19 July 2013
10 m awayRef 201301KD50313
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 19 September 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010KD0859
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 28 June 2017
20 m awayRef 2017010046171
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 28 February 1989
22 m awayRef 198901KD00259
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 13 July 1999
32 m awayRef 199901KD00549
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Marea
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,747 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Marea)
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 200201KD00097 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 2002.