A217 crash in Merton on 16 September 2016 at 09:15 involving a Mercedes C Class
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2016
- Friday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40124, longitude -0.16833, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Figge's Marsh, Merton, CR4 2PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010019053
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 217
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 217
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A217 in Merton, 22 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701VW49028
Slight
Car crash on the A217 in Merton, 24 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901VW00053
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A217 in Merton, 12 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200701VW40410
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A217 in Merton, 19 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201001VW40099
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A217 in Merton, 29 April 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010572098
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A217 in Merton, 4 July 2024
9 m awayRef 2024010519936
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016010019053 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2016.