Fatal A406 crash in Redbridge on 28 April 2016 at 04:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A406 in Redbridge at 04:25 on Thursday 28 April 2016. A 31-year-old male passenger was killed and the 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 28 Apr 2016
- Thursday, 04:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58792, longitude 0.0394, in the IG4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clayhall, Redbridge, IG4 5PP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redbridge
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601TD00047
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2020.
Slight
Renault Grand Scenic crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 5 March 2020
12 m awayRef 2020010240914
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 2 July 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010584366
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 21 March 2004
20 m awayRef 200401TC00248
Slight
Car crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 26 November 2004
22 m awayRef 200401JI40060
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 11 September 2015
32 m awayRef 201501JI40628
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A406 in Redbridge, 2 November 2002
45 m awayRef 200201JI00935
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
FatalMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201601TD00047 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 2016.