Serious A503 crash in Haringey on 3 April 2015 at 18:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A503 in Haringey at 18:00 on Friday 3 April 2015. The 35-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Apr 2015
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58667, longitude -0.0639, in the N15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haringey. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Tottenham, Haringey, N15 4BG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Haringey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501YR90259
- Council area
- Haringey
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 503
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 1993.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A503 in Haringey, 23 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199301YT00373
Slight
Honda Pes 125 crash on the A503 in Haringey, 25 April 2014
At the same spotRef 201401YR90296
Slight
Mazda MX-3 crash on the A503 in Haringey, 27 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200801YR90310
Slight
Honda Pes 125 crash on the A503 in Haringey, 13 May 2015
At the same spotRef 201501YR90391
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A503 in Haringey, 2 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010584151
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A503 in Haringey, 4 October 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010209482
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201501YR90259 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 2015.