A12 crash in Havering on 18 December 2016 at 18:32 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva and a Renault Trafic van were involved in a crash on the A12 in Havering at 18:32 on Sunday 18 December 2016. A 6-year-old male passenger in the Renault Trafic van and a 9-year-old female passenger in the Renault Trafic van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2016
- Sunday, 18:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Meriva and Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58642, longitude 0.17287, in the RM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Edward's, Havering, RM7 7JL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010007587
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 125
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A12 in Havering, 3 March 2013
At the same spotRef 201301KD50144
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A12 in Havering, 2 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901KD00119
Slight
Honda XLR125 crash on the A12 in Havering, 6 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101KD00906
Slight
Volkswagen Eos crash on the A12 in Havering, 31 August 2011
At the same spotRef 201101KD50354
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A12 in Havering, 31 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201101KD50463
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Havering, 24 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010KD0267
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Trafic)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Trafic)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016010007587 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2016.