M11 crash in Redbridge on 23 December 2005 at 18:07 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the M11 in Redbridge at 18:07 on Friday 23 December 2005. The 47-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus and a 70-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2005
- Friday, 18:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58877, longitude 0.03698, in the E18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Woodford, Redbridge, E18 1JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501JI40947
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 5 August 1991
32 m awayRef 199101JI00410
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the M11 in Havering, 18 April 2000
61 m awayRef 20000142G1254
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the M11 in Redbridge, 6 April 2006
72 m awayRef 200601JI40199
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the M11 in Redbridge, 1 July 2007
85 m awayRef 200701JI64694
Slight
Honda crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 13 January 2000
114 m awayRef 200001JI00046
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 8 August 1993
127 m awayRef 199301JI00421
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 200501JI40947 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 2005.