A13 crash in Havering on 30 August 2007 at 03:20 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A13 in Havering at 03:20 on Thursday 30 August 2007. The 39-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2007
- Thursday, 03:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52013, longitude 0.16899, in the RM13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rainham & Wennington, Havering, RM13 8GQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701KD66178
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A13 in Havering, 10 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200701KD67195
Serious
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Havering, 13 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200301KD00691
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A13 in Havering, 20 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200801KD72836
Slight
Honda C90M crash on the A13 in Havering, 18 November 2008
20 m awayRef 200801KG76256
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A13 in Havering, 16 September 2024
21 m awayRef 2024010532360
Slight
HGV crash on a C road in Havering, 31 March 1999
22 m awayRef 199901KD00262
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
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 200701KD66178 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 2007.