A124 crash in Newham on 7 July 2012 at 00:37 involving a Ford Galaxy taxi
A Ford Galaxy taxi and a car were involved in a crash on the A124 in Newham at 00:37 on Saturday 7 July 2012. The 44-year-old male driver of the Ford Galaxy taxi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2012
- Saturday, 00:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Galaxy and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5338, longitude 0.06394, in the E6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wall End, Newham, E6 2ND area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201KF60381
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 124
- 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
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Dry
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 10 April 2014.
Slight
Suzuki FL 125 crash on the A124 in Newham, 10 April 2014
At the same spotRef 201401KF60286
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A124 in Newham, 7 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200501KF60645
Slight
Bus crash on the A124 in Newham, 24 April 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010KE0165
Serious
Car crash on the A124 in Newham, 6 January 1996
10 m awayRef 199601KO00003
Slight
Bus crash on the A124 in Newham, 11 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200101KO01101
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A124 in Newham, 9 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201001KF60094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
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 201201KF60381 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.