Serious unclassified road crash in Merton SW19 on 11 December 2017 at 08:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merton at 08:05 on Monday 11 December 2017. A 49-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 2017
- Monday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42868, longitude -0.21801, in the SW19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Village, Merton, SW19 5DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010082903
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 149 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1997.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 25 February 1997
149 m awayRef 199701VW00102
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 8 February 1992
158 m awayRef 199201VW00101
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Lambeth, 29 June 1999
163 m awayRef 199901LS00262
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 2 July 1992
166 m awayRef 199201ZM00466
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 12 November 1989
192 m awayRef 198901VW00819
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 10 July 2017
198 m awayRef 2017010050517
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017010082903 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2017.