M25 crash in Havering on 23 September 2012 at 22:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the M25 in Havering at 22:55 on Sunday 23 September 2012. The 19-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2012
- Sunday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56696, longitude 0.28839, in the RM14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herongate, Ingrave & West Horndon, Brentwood, CM13 3JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201KD50393
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M25 in Havering, 14 December 2015
10 m awayRef 201501KD50688
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M25 in Havering, 8 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200301KD00511
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the M25 in Havering, 5 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200201KD00112
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the M25 in Havering, 17 October 2007
14 m awayRef 200701KD67287
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M25 in Havering, 30 December 2002
14 m awayRef 200201KD09039
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M25 in Havering, 15 August 2008
20 m awayRef 200801KD74511
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201201KD50393 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 2012.