A118 crash in Redbridge on 19 December 2017 at 17:06 involving a Mercedes C Class
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 17:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56295, longitude 0.09196, in the IG3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ilford Town, Redbridge, IG1 1TS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010079185
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 118
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto signal part defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
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 June 1994.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A118 in Redbridge, 25 June 1994
At the same spotRef 199401JI00368
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A118 in Redbridge, 29 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199201JI00489
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A118 in Redbridge, 13 October 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010064449
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A118 in Redbridge, 20 December 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010616651
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A118 in Redbridge, 23 November 1993
10 m awayRef 199301JI00648
Serious
Chrysler Voyager crash on the A118 in Redbridge, 18 July 2014
10 m awayRef 201401JI40450
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017010079185 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 2017.