A125 crash in Havering on 5 July 2008 at 15:30 involving a Saab 9-3
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2008
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Saab 9-3 and Suzuki Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57644, longitude 0.17787, in the RM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Edward's, Havering, RM1 1RX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801KD73783
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 125
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 118
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2008.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A125 in Havering, 31 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200801KD69328
Slight
Bus crash on the A125 in Havering, 12 May 2008
14 m awayRef 200801KD72648
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A125 in Havering, 30 July 2022
16 m awayRef 2022010392894
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A118 in Havering, 10 April 1994
20 m awayRef 199401KD00321
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A118 in Havering, 23 July 1990
20 m awayRef 199001KD00743
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A125 in Havering, 23 July 2025
21 m awayRef 2025010588337
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
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 200801KD73783 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.