Serious B174 crash in Havering on 16 December 2002 at 19:37 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Mitsubishi Galant were involved in a crash on the B174 in Havering at 19:37 on Monday 16 December 2002. A 35-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2002
- Monday, 19:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Mitsubishi Galant
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59648, longitude 0.16396, in the RM5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mawneys, Havering, RM5 2AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201KD00993
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 174
- 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
- Raining, 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 29 May 2005.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B174 in Havering, 29 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200501KD50344
Fatal
Car crash on the B174 in Havering, 10 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TD00005
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B174 in Havering, 15 May 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010575181
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B174 in Havering, 14 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200301KD00552
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the B174 in Havering, 14 May 1992
10 m awayRef 199201KD00381
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B174 in Havering, 3 August 1990
10 m awayRef 199001KD00783
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Galant
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,755 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 200201KD00993 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.