A406 crash in Barnet on 21 December 2005 at 23:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A406 in Barnet at 23:20 on Wednesday 21 December 2005. The 26-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60774, longitude -0.14703, in the N10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Friern Barnet, Barnet, N11 3DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501SX21132
- Council area
- Barnet
- 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
- 40 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 April 2014.
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Nissan Note crash on the A406 in Barnet, 18 April 2014
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BMW 3 Series crash on the A406 in Barnet, 27 October 1990
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Nissan Almera crash on the A406 in Barnet, 26 October 2003
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Nissan Micra crash on the A406 in Barnet, 2 October 2010
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Volkswagen Passat crash on the A406 in Barnet, 15 October 2010
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Slight
Renault crash on the A406 in Barnet, 28 August 2009
20 m awayRef 200901SX20859
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200501SX21132 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 2005.