A13 crash in Barking and Dagenham on 8 April 2017 at 17:15 involving a BMW 5 Series
Four vehicles, including a BMW 5 Series and a Volkswagen Golf, were involved in a crash on the A13 in Barking and Dagenham at 17:15 on Saturday 8 April 2017. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 4
- BMW 5 Series and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52148, longitude 0.16228, in the RM13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beam Park, Havering, RM9 6DE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barking and Dagenham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010031063
- Council area
- Barking and Dagenham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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 24 March 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A13 in Barking and Dagenham, 24 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201101KG70100
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A13 in Barking and Dagenham, 26 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200601KG70309
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A13 in Havering, 2 December 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010612866
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A13 in Barking and Dagenham, 2 August 2010
20 m awayRef 201001KG70290
Slight
Honda VFR800A crash on the A13 in Barking and Dagenham, 20 July 2009
22 m awayRef 200901KG70221
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A13 in Barking and Dagenham, 24 September 2003
22 m awayRef 200301TC00538
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 4: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2017010031063 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barking and Dagenham road accident statistics for 2017.