Unclassified road crash in Merton SM4 on 29 January 2015 at 07:25 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merton at 07:25 on Thursday 29 January 2015. A 43-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2015
- Thursday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38756, longitude -0.1985, in the SM4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Helier, Merton, SM4 6SE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501VW40033
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 2017.
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 30 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010080792
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 27 September 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010333781
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 6 February 1995
42 m awayRef 199501ZM00073
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 17 June 1987
58 m awayRef 198701VW00360
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 18 August 1998
122 m awayRef 199801VW00494
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 29 July 2006
136 m awayRef 200601VW40262
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201501VW40033 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 2015.