B179 crash in Waltham Forest on 7 November 2008 at 07:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Rover 75 were involved in a crash on the B179 in Waltham Forest at 07:00 on Friday 7 November 2008. The 30-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2008
- Friday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Rover 75
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59955, longitude -0.02549, in the E17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Valley, Waltham Forest, E4 8SP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801JC75843
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 179
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 1991.
Slight
Reliant Rialto crash on the B179 in Waltham Forest, 17 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199101JC00487
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B179 in Waltham Forest, 21 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199301JC00104
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B179 in Waltham Forest, 21 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199701JC00114
Slight
Car crash on the B179 in Waltham Forest, 12 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010JC0083
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 24 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200601JC30040
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the B179 in Waltham Forest, 6 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701JC00369
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200801JC75843 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 2008.