C road crash in Havering RM2 on 21 December 2016 at 19:28 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 19:28 on Wednesday 21 December 2016. The 29-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 19:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58966, longitude 0.21157, in the RM2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harold Wood, Havering, RM3 0EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010008308
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 January 2013.
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on a C road in Havering, 1 January 2013
14 m awayRef 201301KD50034
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in Havering, 12 January 2016
20 m awayRef 201601KD50005
Serious
Volvo crash on a C road in Havering, 23 February 1994
22 m awayRef 199401KD00205
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Havering, 9 September 2004
22 m awayRef 200401KD00507
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 10 January 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010KD0027
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Havering, 14 October 1997
30 m awayRef 199701KD00916
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2016010008308 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.