A12 crash in Havering on 5 March 2002 at 16:05 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A12 in Havering at 16:05 on Tuesday 5 March 2002. The 34-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2002
- Tuesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58129, longitude 0.16381, in the RM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Edward's, Havering, RM7 7JL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201KD00172
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2012.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A12 in Havering, 10 February 2012
10 m awayRef 201201KD50068
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A12 in Havering, 16 July 1995
14 m awayRef 199501KD00590
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A12 in Havering, 2 January 1988
14 m awayRef 198801KD00010
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A12 in Havering, 1 December 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010614078
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A12 in Havering, 25 February 2022
19 m awayRef 2022010362552
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A12 in Havering, 19 June 1997
20 m awayRef 199701KD00536
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,002 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 200201KD00172 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.