B540 crash in Haringey on 1 November 2012 at 07:17 involving a Volkswagen Golf
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2012
- Thursday, 07:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5702, longitude -0.13903, in the N6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haringey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Junction, Islington, N6 5LY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201YR90622
- Council area
- Haringey
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 540
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1998.
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the B540 in Haringey, 29 June 1998
14 m awayRef 199801NH00262
Slight
Car crash on the B540 in Haringey, 19 October 1990
22 m awayRef 199001YR00499
Slight
Car crash on the B540 in Haringey, 12 September 1983
28 m awayRef 1983010YR0387
Serious
Car crash on the B540 in Haringey, 28 January 1983
28 m awayRef 1983010NH0041
Slight
Car crash on the B540 in Islington, 28 November 1982
28 m awayRef 1982010NH0612
Slight
Aston Martin DB9 crash on the B540 in Haringey, 27 February 2013
28 m awayRef 201301YR90546
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, 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 201201YR90622 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 2012.