A12 crash in Havering on 24 April 2008 at 17:42 involving a Toyota Avensis
Four vehicles, including a Toyota Avensis and a Ford Focus, were involved in a crash on the A12 in Havering at 17:42 on Thursday 24 April 2008. A 28-year-old male passenger in the Mitsubishi L200 van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2008
- Thursday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 4
- Toyota Avensis and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5805, longitude 0.15786, in the RM7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mawneys, Havering, RM7 8DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801KD72071
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 2013.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A12 in Havering, 22 July 2013
10 m awayRef 201301KD50324
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on the A12 in Havering, 28 May 2015
10 m awayRef 201501KD50283
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A12 in Havering, 3 April 2024
13 m awayRef 2024010503114
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A12 in Havering, 23 April 2012
14 m awayRef 201201KD50153
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A12 in Havering, 21 December 2000
22 m awayRef 200001KD00883
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A12 in Havering, 3 April 2018
22 m awayRef 2018010099650
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Mitsubishi L200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 4: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mitsubishi L200)
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 200801KD72071 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 2008.