A219 crash in Merton on 23 January 2012 at 16:20 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2012
- Monday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41948, longitude -0.20212, in the SW19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wimbledon Town & Dundonald, Merton, SW19 3SF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201VW40002
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 219
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the A219 in Merton, 15 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201VW00471
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A219 in Merton, 23 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201VW00418
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A219 in Merton, 11 November 1990
At the same spotRef 199001VW00897
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A219 in Merton, 12 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199701VW00461
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A219 in Merton, 17 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301VW00596
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A219 in Merton, 17 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101VW00200
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,935 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201201VW40002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2012.