Unclassified road crash in Havering RM3 on 18 December 2002 at 18:50 involving a Ford Escort
A car and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 18:50 on Wednesday 18 December 2002. The 42-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2002
- Wednesday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60595, longitude 0.22016, in the RM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gooshays, Havering, RM3 7UJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201KD01012
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2003.
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 15 October 2003
32 m awayRef 200301KD00689
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 24 June 1985
51 m awayRef 198501KD00511
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Van crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 17 May 1986
51 m awayRef 198601KD00419
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 23 December 1988
51 m awayRef 198801KD01271
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Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 28 October 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200201KD01012 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.