A236 crash in Merton on 22 August 2007 at 19:00 involving a Nissan Primera
A Nissan Primera and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A236 in Merton at 19:00 on Wednesday 22 August 2007. The 25-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper and a 25-year-old male passenger in the Mini Cooper were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2007
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Primera and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40783, longitude -0.16965, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Figge's Marsh, Merton, CR4 2PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701VW40293
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 236
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 1999.
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A236 in Merton, 7 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901VW00514
Serious
Car crash on the A236 in Merton, 19 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198501VW00032
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A236 in Merton, 31 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200601VW40455
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A236 in Merton, 13 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501ZM00719
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A236 in Merton, 1 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701VW00594
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A236 in Merton, 24 February 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010020799
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- 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 200701VW40293 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2007.