C road crash in Havering RM11 on 23 February 2002 at 16:15 involving a Carbodies Taxi
A Carbodies Taxi and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 16:15 on Saturday 23 February 2002. The 32-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 26-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2002
- Saturday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Carbodies Taxi and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57017, longitude 0.21957, in the RM11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Emerson Park, Havering, RM11 3LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201KD00171
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 20 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 20 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901KD00752
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Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 26 March 1994
At the same spotRef 199401KD00282
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 19 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010KD0243
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5 m awayRef 2019010182640
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Carbodies Taxi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 200201KD00171 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.