A124 crash in Newham on 17 October 2003 at 16:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the A124 in Newham at 16:45 on Friday 17 October 2003. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort and a female passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2003
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52997, longitude 0.03609, in the E13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plaistow North, Newham, E13 9EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301KO00774
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 124
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 January 2000.
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 3 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200001KO00005
Slight
Car crash on the A124 in Newham, 28 December 2010
At the same spotRef 201001KF60832
Slight
Dennis crash on the A124 in Newham, 17 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301KO00070
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A124 in Newham, 16 November 2000
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Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A124 in Newham, 27 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301KO00875
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A124 in Newham, 15 May 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010575162
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 200301KO00774 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 2003.