A118 crash in Newham on 30 November 2012 at 08:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A118 in Newham at 08:45 on Friday 30 November 2012. The 29-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2012
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5509, longitude 0.04827, 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
- 201201KF60731
- 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
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- 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 26 July 1995.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A118 in Newham, 26 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199501KF00325
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on the A118 in Newham, 30 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200501KF60460
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A118 in Newham, 6 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199201KW00238
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A118 in Newham, 30 June 1992
At the same spotRef 199201KW00339
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A118 in Newham, 19 December 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010616500
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A118 in Newham, 2 February 2023
5 m awayRef 2023010425373
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 201201KF60731 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.