A112 crash in Waltham Forest on 30 October 2018 at 16:30 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest at 16:30 on Tuesday 30 October 2018. The 57-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2018
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Transporter and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56714, longitude -0.00958, in the E10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forest, Waltham Forest, E10 5AP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waltham Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010142293
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 112
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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 20 December 1998.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 20 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801JL00526
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 4 August 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010590324
Serious
Leyland Freighter crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 23 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199601JL00536
Serious
Car crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 20 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801JL00305
Slight
Toyota crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 26 August 2006
10 m awayRef 200601JC30525
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 13 July 2007
10 m awayRef 200701JC65673
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- 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 2018010142293 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.