B161 crash in Waltham Forest on 30 January 2014 at 15:50 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a van were involved in a crash on the B161 in Waltham Forest at 15:50 on Thursday 30 January 2014. The 52-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2014
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55798, longitude 0.00762, in the E11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cann Hall, Waltham Forest, E11 4JE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waltham Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401JC30040
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 161
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 11
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2014.
Slight
Toyota crash on the B161 in Waltham Forest, 24 June 2014
10 m awayRef 201401JC30444
Slight
Car crash on the B161 in Waltham Forest, 25 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198501JL00423
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A11 in Waltham Forest, 14 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199501JL00545
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B161 in Waltham Forest, 7 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199701JL00087
Serious
Van crash on the B161 in Waltham Forest, 22 June 1989
20 m awayRef 198901JL00295
Slight
Car crash on the B161 in Waltham Forest, 4 November 1987
20 m awayRef 198701JL00498
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
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 201401JC30040 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 2014.