A12 crash in Newham on 19 April 2012 at 10:07 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van, a car and a Mercedes CLK Class were involved in a crash on the A12 in Newham at 10:07 on Thursday 19 April 2012. The 29-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2012
- Thursday, 10:07
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Vivaro and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55163, longitude -0.01516, in the E20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leyton, Waltham Forest, E10 5NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201JC30159
- Council area
- Newham
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 May 2021.
Serious
Honda SH 125 crash on the A12 in Newham, 15 May 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010307556
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A12 in Newham, 31 July 2009
10 m awayRef 200901GD10541
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A12 in Newham, 20 April 2005
10 m awayRef 200501KF60217
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A12 in Newham, 30 December 2022
12 m awayRef 2022010419080
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A12 in Newham, 19 December 2020
13 m awayRef 2020010285809
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A12 in Newham, 16 July 2008
14 m awayRef 200801KF73730
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes CLK Class
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201201JC30159 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 2012.