B550 crash in Barnet on 25 December 2016 at 04:30 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Toyota Avensis taxi were involved in a crash on the B550 in Barnet at 04:30 on Sunday 25 December 2016. A 61-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Avensis taxi 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
- 25 Dec 2016
- Sunday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6039, longitude -0.14849, in the N10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Friern Barnet, Barnet, N10 2LP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010008743
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 550
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2000.
Slight
Yamaha YP 250 crash on the B550 in Barnet, 9 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200001SX00521
Slight
Bus crash on the B550 in Barnet, 3 January 1984
14 m awayRef 198401SG00005
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B550 in Barnet, 16 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200001SX01138
Serious
Volvo 740 crash on the B550 in Barnet, 10 March 2004
20 m awayRef 200401SX00251
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B550 in Barnet, 13 August 1992
20 m awayRef 199201SG00419
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B550 in Barnet, 12 March 2021
21 m awayRef 2021010296464
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Taxi or private hire 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 61, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016010008743 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 2016.