Serious M25 crash in Havering on 1 March 2018 at 10:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the M25 in Havering at 10:00 on Thursday 1 March 2018. The 67-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on a dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Mar 2018
- Thursday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62609, longitude 0.23313, in the CM14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brizes, Stondon Massey & South Weald, Brentwood, CM14 5AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010093369
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1999.
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the M25 in Havering, 20 March 1999
At the same spotRef 19990142G0406
Slight
Renault Arkana crash on the M25 in Havering, 7 July 2023
17 m awayRef 2023010453750
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 28 July 2000
20 m awayRef 20004200G0736
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on the M25 in Havering, 13 June 2009
30 m awayRef 200901KD50351
Slight
Nissan Cabstar crash on a C road in Havering, 20 March 1992
32 m awayRef 199201KD00226
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 1 March 1989
36 m awayRef 19894200F0178
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 2018010093369 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.