A217 crash in Merton on 21 December 2013 at 11:29 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5, a Mini Cooper and a car were involved in a crash on the A217 in Merton at 11:29 on Saturday 21 December 2013. The 36-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2013
- Saturday, 11:29
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi A5 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4023, longitude -0.16714, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Figge's Marsh, Merton, CR4 2PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301VW40488
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 217
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 217
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 26 March 2010.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A217 in Merton, 26 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201001VW40095
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A217 in Merton, 5 June 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010578904
Slight
Car crash on the A217 in Merton, 27 April 1993
10 m awayRef 199301ZM00247
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A217 in Merton, 26 February 2014
10 m awayRef 201401VW40089
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A217 in Merton, 30 November 2007
10 m awayRef 200701VW49043
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A217 in Merton, 12 January 2001
10 m awayRef 200101VW00015
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
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 201301VW40488 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 2013.