A406 crash in Redbridge on 24 December 2012 at 19:30 involving a Renault Trafic van
A car and a Renault Trafic van were involved in a crash on the A406 in Redbridge at 19:30 on Monday 24 December 2012. The 23-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2012
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5948, longitude 0.03148, in the E18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Woodford, Redbridge, E18 1JU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201JI40722
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 168
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in Redbridge, 7 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200101JI01209
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 2 August 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010590110
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Redbridge, 2 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200301JI00610
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Redbridge, 27 August 2009
10 m awayRef 200901JI40458
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 22 January 1991
10 m awayRef 199101JI00046
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B168 in Redbridge, 20 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198901JI00110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 201201JI40722 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 2012.