A5 crash in Barnet on 1 March 2017 at 14:45 involving an Audi Q3
An Audi Q3 and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A5 in Barnet at 14:45 on Wednesday 1 March 2017. The 51-year-old female driver of the Audi Q3 and a 34-year-old female passenger in the Audi Q3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2017
- Wednesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Q3 and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6011, longitude -0.26802, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burnt Oak, Barnet, HA8 0DL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010023902
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5 in Barnet, 25 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501SV00206
Slight
Volvo 460 crash on the A5 in Barnet, 26 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901QA00486
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in Barnet, 24 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901SC09040
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A5 in Barnet, 3 June 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010041040
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 21 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201601SX20587
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 7 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801SW00476
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q3
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 3,222 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi Q3)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi Q3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2017010023902 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.