A118 crash in Newham on 19 December 2002 at 11:10 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a car were involved in a crash on the A118 in Newham at 11:10 on Thursday 19 December 2002. An 8-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Vectra and the 68-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55456, longitude 0.05969, in the E12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Manor Park, Newham, E12 6DX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201KO01069
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 118
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 2 December 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A118 in Newham, 2 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901KF00550
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A118 in Newham, 18 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200101KO01264
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 21 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199701KF00275
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A118 in Newham, 19 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501KF00214
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A118 in Newham, 9 August 2021
9 m awayRef 2021010323510
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A118 in Newham, 13 December 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010483982
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200201KO01069 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 2002.