A239 crash in Merton on 16 December 2004 at 18:05 involving a Lexus IS200
A Lexus IS200 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A239 in Merton at 18:05 on Thursday 16 December 2004. The 32-year-old female driver of the Lexus IS200 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2004
- Thursday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus IS200 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39949, longitude -0.16581, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Figge's Marsh, Merton, CR4 2PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401VW00494
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 239
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A239 in Merton, 11 June 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010VW0332
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A239 in Merton, 15 May 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010037409
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A239 in Merton, 17 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010139685
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A239 in Merton, 21 January 2025
14 m awayRef 2025010556215
Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A239 in Merton, 18 March 2025
14 m awayRef 2025010564689
Slight
Lexmoto Titan crash on the A239 in Merton, 25 April 2022
14 m awayRef 2022010372732
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus IS200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lexus IS200)
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 200401VW00494 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2004.