C road crash in Havering RM7 on 1 May 2018 at 04:35 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 04:35 on Tuesday 1 May 2018. The 28-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2018
- Tuesday, 04:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59003, longitude 0.16062, in the RM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mawneys, Havering, RM7 8DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010105034
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 December 2011.
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on a C road in Havering, 15 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101KD50568
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Havering, 2 September 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010328950
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Havering, 23 January 1998
10 m awayRef 199801KD00075
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Havering, 15 August 1992
10 m awayRef 199201KD00718
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Havering, 23 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199901KD00926
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 31 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010KD0992
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018010105034 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.