Serious A5 crash in Barnet on 25 November 2007 at 19:05 involving a Toyota
A vehicle, a Toyota and a Mercedes S Class were involved in a crash on the A5 in Barnet at 19:05 on Sunday 25 November 2007. The 57-year-old female driver of the Toyota was seriously injured and the 62-year-old male driver of the Mercedes S Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Nov 2007
- Sunday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6177, longitude -0.2879, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Edgware, Barnet, HA8 8BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701QA68187
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2007.
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A5 in Barnet, 31 March 2007
10 m awayRef 200701SX20266
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Barnet, 25 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198901SV00133
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 26 December 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010SW0766
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 3 July 1989
10 m awayRef 198901SV00420
Serious
Van crash on the A5 in Barnet, 3 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198701SW00166
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A5 in Barnet, 12 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200001SX09257
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,180 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes S Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mercedes S 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 200701QA68187 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 2007.