A118 crash in Newham on 12 January 2012 at 16:10 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 and a Vauxhall Zafira taxi were involved in a crash on the A118 in Newham at 16:10 on Thursday 12 January 2012. The 47-year-old female driver of the Mazda MX-5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2012
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda MX-5 and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55269, longitude 0.0534, in the E12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Manor Park, Newham, E12 6DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201KF60034
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 116
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 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 November 2011.
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A118 in Newham, 7 November 2011
At the same spotRef 201101KF60609
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A118 in Newham, 26 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200301KO00906
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A118 in Newham, 11 November 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010609234
Slight
Car crash on the A118 in Newham, 18 February 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010559993
Slight
Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the A118 in Newham, 19 September 2015
10 m awayRef 201501KF60815
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A118 in Newham, 30 November 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010KW0688
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,839 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 201201KF60034 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.