Unclassified road crash in Barnet NW11 on 25 October 2017 at 20:40 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnet at 20:40 on Wednesday 25 October 2017. The 33-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2017
- Wednesday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.569, longitude -0.20228, in the NW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Childs Hill, Barnet, NW2 2AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010066503
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2010.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 6 April 2010
10 m awayRef 201001SX20383
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 29 October 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010SG0608
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Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 28 June 1991
22 m awayRef 199101SG00319
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Toyota Camry crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 31 December 1999
36 m awayRef 199901SC09064
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Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 17 October 2025
58 m awayRef 2025010604262
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Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 16 June 2007
72 m awayRef 200701SX63527
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- 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 2017010066503 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.