A1 crash in Barnet on 22 January 2017 at 13:03 involving a Smart City
A Smart City and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the A1 in Barnet at 13:03 on Sunday 22 January 2017. The 46-year-old male driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2017
- Sunday, 13:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Smart City and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60187, longitude -0.23535, in the NW4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colindale North, Barnet, NW9 5PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010013722
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1 in Barnet, 4 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199301SV00578
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A1 in Barnet, 10 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010SW0730
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A1 in Barnet, 15 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601SV00392
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Barnet, 28 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010SW0761
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A1 in Barnet, 18 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901SC01639
Slight
Daihatsu Sportrak crash on the A1 in Barnet, 2 June 2011
At the same spotRef 201101SX20441
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Smart City
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- 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 2017010013722 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 2017.