M25 crash in Havering on 3 January 2006 at 04:45 involving a Scania lorry
A Scania lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the M25 in Havering at 04:45 on Tuesday 3 January 2006. The 39-year-old male driver of the Scania lorry and a 64-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jan 2006
- Tuesday, 04:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Scania and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61965, longitude 0.24726, in the CM14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brizes, Stondon Massey & South Weald, Brentwood, CM14 5QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200601KD50069
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 2004.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M25 in Havering, 22 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TC00258
Slight
Scania crash on the M25 in Havering, 19 June 2001
14 m awayRef 200101KD00498
Slight
DAF Trucks FT 85CF crash on the M25 in Havering, 7 April 2008
14 m awayRef 200801KD72028
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M25 in Havering, 7 October 2005
36 m awayRef 200501KD50598
Serious
Scania crash on the M25 in Havering, 8 September 1999
40 m awayRef 19990142G0632
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on the M25 in Havering, 27 January 2021
44 m awayRef 2021010290404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,705 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Scania)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200601KD50069 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2006.