M25 crash in Havering on 28 November 2002 at 17:50 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat, a Rover 200 Series and a Vauxhall Astra van were involved in a crash on the M25 in Havering at 17:50 on Thursday 28 November 2002. The 22-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series and the 32-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2002
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Passat and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57051, longitude 0.28611, in the RM14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herongate, Ingrave & West Horndon, Brentwood, CM13 3JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201KD00949
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 15 December 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200G1183
Slight
Suzuki GSX 650 crash on the M25 in Havering, 27 June 2011
14 m awayRef 201101KD50255
Serious
Car crash on the M25 in Havering, 11 April 2002
14 m awayRef 200201KD00259
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the M25 in Havering, 17 June 2011
14 m awayRef 201101KD50233
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the M25 in Havering, 11 December 2015
14 m awayRef 201501KD50695
Slight
Toyota crash on the M25 in Havering, 7 April 2025
15 m awayRef 2025011574963
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, van occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200201KD00949 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.