Serious B552 crash in Barnet on 22 September 2004 at 14:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B552 in Barnet at 14:00 on Wednesday 22 September 2004. The 79-year-old male driver of the Ford KA and the 52-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier were seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Sep 2004
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62194, longitude -0.23414, in the NW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401SX00973
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 552
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1461
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B552 in Barnet, 7 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901SV00430
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the B552 in Barnet, 16 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200201SX00454
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the B552 in Barnet, 26 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010611865
Slight
Car crash on the B552 in Barnet, 9 December 1988
10 m awayRef 198801SW00769
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the B552 in Barnet, 23 February 2023
12 m awayRef 2023010428733
Slight
Car crash on the B552 in Barnet, 17 June 2009
14 m awayRef 200901SX20583
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200401SX00973 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 2004.