A406 crash in Waltham Forest on 24 December 2005 at 00:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A406 in Waltham Forest at 00:05 on Saturday 24 December 2005. The 28-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60084, longitude -0.01663, in the E17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Valley, Waltham Forest, E4 8SP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waltham Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501JC30900
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1997.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 15 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199701JC00111
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 20 February 2010
At the same spotRef 201001JC30110
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 2 August 2015
At the same spotRef 201501JC30485
Slight
Car crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 21 October 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010065819
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 18 August 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010461227
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 23 April 2005
10 m awayRef 200501JC30259
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200501JC30900 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 2005.