Unclassified road crash in Enfield N18 on 12 December 2012 at 19:25 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a DAF Trucks lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Enfield at 19:25 on Wednesday 12 December 2012. The 29-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61163, longitude -0.04302, in the N18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upper Edmonton, Enfield, N18 2FG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Enfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201YE80813
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 24 December 2015.
Slight
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Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 31 December 2012
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Serious
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 6 February 2016
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Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 26 July 2005
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 31 January 2016
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Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 8 February 2012
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201201YE80813 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 2012.