Serious A106 crash in Waltham Forest on 10 May 2012 at 15:52 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A106 in Waltham Forest at 15:52 on Thursday 10 May 2012. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 May 2012
- Thursday, 15:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57031, longitude 0.0122, in the E11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leytonstone, Waltham Forest, E11 1RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waltham Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TA00373
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 106
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 April 2003.
Serious
Toyota Carina crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest, 21 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200301JC00270
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest, 26 March 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010566054
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 20 September 2020
19 m awayRef 2020010269321
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest, 6 May 2003
22 m awayRef 200301JC00316
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest, 7 October 2022
26 m awayRef 2022010403412
Slight
Fiat Tempra crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest, 2 December 2000
28 m awayRef 200001JC01021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201201TA00373 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 2012.