M25 crash in Havering on 17 September 2018 at 18:00 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5, a Kia Sportage and a Peugeot Partner van were involved in a crash on the M25 in Havering at 18:00 on Monday 17 September 2018. The 41-year-old male driver of the Kia Sportage and the 33-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Partner van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2018
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi A5 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57876, longitude 0.28133, in the RM14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harold Wood, Havering, RM14 1TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010133154
- 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 17 November 2005.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the M25 in Havering, 17 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200501KD50702
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the M25 in Havering, 14 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200501KD50430
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the M25 in Havering, 29 August 2010
At the same spotRef 201001KD50465
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Havering, 22 February 2019
6 m awayRef 2019010165056
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the M25 in Havering, 19 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200601TC00198
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the M25 in Havering, 13 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200701KD68571
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot Partner)
- 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 2018010133154 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.