Unclassified road crash in Havering RM5 on 23 December 2016 at 00:01 involving a Ford Fiesta
Four vehicles, including a Ford Fiesta and a Ford Focus, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 00:01 on Friday 23 December 2016. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- 23 Dec 2016
- Friday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Fiesta and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60722, longitude 0.16693, in the RM5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Havering-atte-Bower, Havering, RM5 2QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010008458
- Council area
- Havering
- 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
- 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 6 January 2008
41 m awayRef 200801KD69415
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Havering, 23 January 1979
78 m awayRef 197901ANUJD52
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 10 July 1985
86 m awayRef 198501KD00566
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 12 May 1994
90 m awayRef 199401KD00429
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 18 October 1990
94 m awayRef 199001KD01052
Slight
Honda SFX50 crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 20 January 2008
94 m awayRef 200801KD69183
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 4: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2016010008458 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.