Serious unclassified road crash in Merton SW19 on 9 December 2014 at 18:22 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Merton at 18:22 on Tuesday 9 December 2014. The 62-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 18:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41762, longitude -0.20363, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401VW40588
- Council area
- Merton
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 285
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B285 in Merton, 12 December 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010416009
Slight
Kawasaki KLE650 crash on the B285 in Merton, 5 February 2016
10 m awayRef 201601VW40048
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B285 in Merton, 14 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199601ZM00173
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B285 in Merton, 20 July 2020
21 m awayRef 2020010257492
Slight
Car crash on the B285 in Merton, 3 May 1989
30 m awayRef 198901VW00337
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B285 in Merton, 3 July 1997
32 m awayRef 199701VW00378
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 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 201401VW40588 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 2014.