A3 crash in the City of London on 1 November 2008 at 19:52 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A3 in the City of London at 19:52 on Saturday 1 November 2008. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2008
- Saturday, 19:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50912, longitude -0.08719, in the EC4R postcode district and within the built-up area of City and County of the City of London. It is one of the crashes that make up the Candlewick, City of London, EC4R 9AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of London
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801CP00273
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 August 2009.
Serious
Volvo crash on the A3 in the City of London, 18 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CP00221
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A3 in the City of London, 24 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401CP00073
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in the City of London, 6 January 1982
At the same spotRef 198248P500582
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in the City of London, 6 December 1982
At the same spotRef 198248P550082
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3 in the City of London, 9 September 2025
3 m awayRef 2025481710138
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the A3 in the City of London, 21 July 2024
7 m awayRef 2024481563491
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200801CP00273 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 2008.