Unclassified road crash in Havering RM5 on 26 December 2017 at 23:05 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 23:05 on Tuesday 26 December 2017. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60129, longitude 0.1743, in the RM5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marshalls & Rise Park, Havering, RM1 4UJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010080278
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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 16 September 2009.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 16 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200901KD50420
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 3 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199801KD00192
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 6 December 2003
36 m awayRef 200301KD00820
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 28 September 1989
41 m awayRef 198901KD00988
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 25 October 2005
64 m awayRef 200501TC00408
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 29 February 2016
72 m awayRef 201601KD50173
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2017010080278 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2017.