A118 crash in Havering on 17 April 2008 at 05:56 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A118 in Havering at 05:56 on Thursday 17 April 2008. The 43-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2008
- Thursday, 05:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57414, longitude 0.16593, in the RM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rush Green & Crowlands, Havering, RM7 9DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801KD72342
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 118
- 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
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1990.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A118 in Havering, 30 September 1990
At the same spotRef 199001KD00989
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A118 in Havering, 8 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200801KD75740
Slight
Nissan Ariya crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 5 December 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010547594
Slight
Car crash on the A118 in Havering, 7 March 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010KD0211
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A118 in Havering, 2 March 2015
10 m awayRef 201501KD50117
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A118 in Havering, 16 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199101KD00511
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 849 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 200801KD72342 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.