A103 crash in Haringey on 20 December 2017 at 06:30 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Kia Ceed were involved in a crash on the A103 in Haringey at 06:30 on Wednesday 20 December 2017. The 28-year-old male driver of the Mercedes A Class 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 junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Kia Ceed
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57803, longitude -0.12428, in the N8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haringey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crouch End, Haringey, N8 8SH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Haringey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010085035
- Council area
- Haringey
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1201
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
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 serious injury crash on 9 January 2003.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A103 in Haringey, 9 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301YR00018
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A103 in Haringey, 7 June 2024
2 m awayRef 2024010514900
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A103 in Haringey, 1 May 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010246453
Slight
Car crash on the A103 in Haringey, 1 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198701YR00161
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A103 in Haringey, 5 February 1999
14 m awayRef 199901YR00078
Slight
Honda ANF125 crash on the A103 in Haringey, 17 May 2013
14 m awayRef 201301YR90282
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2017010085035 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 2017.