A217 crash in Merton on 24 April 2015 at 14:00 involving a Peugeot 107
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2015
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Peugeot 107
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39918, longitude -0.17116, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ravensbury, Merton, CR4 4GL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501VW40199
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A217 in Merton, 28 December 2012
10 m awayRef 201201VW40487
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A217 in Merton, 1 March 1993
14 m awayRef 199301ZM00128
Slight
Chrysler crash on the A217 in Merton, 22 May 2010
14 m awayRef 201001VW40183
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A217 in Merton, 20 November 2024
18 m awayRef 2024010544542
Serious
Toyota C-HR crash on the A217 in Merton, 15 May 2023
18 m awayRef 2023010443059
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A217 in Merton, 27 February 2003
22 m awayRef 200301VW00106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 107)
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 201501VW40199 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.