A12 crash in Havering on 28 December 2008 at 19:22 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A12 in Havering at 19:22 on Sunday 28 December 2008. The 57-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2008
- Sunday, 19:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59783, longitude 0.23102, in the RM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gooshays, Havering, RM3 9JP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801KD76639
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2003.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A12 in Havering, 25 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200301KD00081
Slight
Lorry crash on the A12 in Havering, 23 December 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010KD1189
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Havering, 22 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198501KD00603
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Havering, 26 August 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010KD0781
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A12 in Havering, 13 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199401KD00730
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Havering, 18 April 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010KD0361
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
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 200801KD76639 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.