Unclassified road crash in Waltham Forest E11 on 5 January 2018 at 07:15 involving a BMW 7 Series
A BMW 7 Series, a Ford Transit Connect van and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest at 07:15 on Friday 5 January 2018. The 31-year-old male driver of the BMW 7 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2018
- Friday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 7 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57607, longitude 0.00481, in the E11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leytonstone, Waltham Forest, E11 1RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waltham Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010096286
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 20 May 2002
10 m awayRef 200201JC00303
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 1 December 2025
13 m awayRef 2025010613215
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 1 May 2014
14 m awayRef 201401JC30300
Slight
Yamaha WR 125 crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 28 October 2012
14 m awayRef 201201JC30535
Serious
Peugeot 305 crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 19 March 1993
20 m awayRef 199301JL00102
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 29 November 2023
31 m awayRef 2023010481055
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 7 Series
Car
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 7 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018010096286 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 2018.