A3205 crash in Wandsworth on 30 September 2017 at 20:19 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A3205 in Wandsworth at 20:19 on Saturday 30 September 2017. The 35-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2017
- Saturday, 20:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47177, longitude -0.16651, in the SW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Battersea Park, Wandsworth, SW11 4TA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010061923
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3205
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 19 April 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A320 in Wandsworth, 19 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010WA0136
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A3205 in Wandsworth, 14 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010603733
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A3205 in Wandsworth, 5 April 1993
10 m awayRef 199301WA00089
Slight
Car crash on the A3205 in Wandsworth, 22 November 2014
10 m awayRef 201401WW51033
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A3205 in Wandsworth, 9 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199101WA00205
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3205 in Wandsworth, 28 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198401WA00227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2017010061923 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wandsworth road accident statistics for 2017.