C road crash in Havering RM12 on 31 January 2018 at 12:20 involving an Iveco Daily van
An Iveco Daily van and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 12:20 on Wednesday 31 January 2018. The 42-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo and a 44-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco Daily and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55144, longitude 0.19067, in the RM12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elm Park, Havering, RM12 5EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010086924
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 125
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 slight injury crash on 27 December 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A125 in Havering, 27 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601KD01154
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A125 in Havering, 5 October 1991
10 m awayRef 199101KD00861
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A125 in Havering, 12 April 1995
10 m awayRef 199501KD00308
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A125 in Havering, 10 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199501KD00743
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A125 in Havering, 18 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199401KD00749
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Havering, 14 March 2013
10 m awayRef 201301KD50118
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco Daily
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,287 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018010086924 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 2018.