Unclassified road crash in Havering RM13 on 20 December 2004 at 06:40 involving a Leyland DAF FA 55 lorry
A van and a Leyland DAF FA 55 lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 06:40 on Monday 20 December 2004. The 42-year-old male driver of the van and the 37-year-old male driver of the Leyland DAF FA 55 lorry were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2004
- Monday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Leyland DAF FA 55
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53619, longitude 0.17552, in the RM13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401KD50123
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 178
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1992.
Slight
Honda crash on the B178 in Havering, 9 April 1992
10 m awayRef 199201KD00284
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B178 in Havering, 22 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199701KG00878
Slight
Scania crash on the B178 in Havering, 18 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199701KG00864
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B178 in Havering, 3 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199901KD00367
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the B178 in Havering, 3 August 1996
10 m awayRef 199601KG00519
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B178 in Havering, 28 June 2010
14 m awayRef 201001KD50373
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Leyland DAF FA 55
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 2 (Leyland DAF FA 55)
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 200401KD50123 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 2004.