Unclassified road crash in Havering RM2 on 18 October 2008 at 10:00 involving a Smart City
A Smart City and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 10:00 on Saturday 18 October 2008. The 44-year-old female driver of the Smart City 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
- 18 Oct 2008
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Smart City and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58334, longitude 0.21299, in the RM2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Squirrels Heath, Havering, RM11 2EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801KD75227
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
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%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Smart City
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Smart City)
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 200801KD75227 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.