Serious A5000 crash in Barnet on 13 November 2018 at 14:25 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit two pedestrians on the A5000 in Barnet at 14:25 on Tuesday 13 November 2018. An 83-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and a 71-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Nov 2018
- Tuesday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60001, longitude -0.196, in the N3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Finchley Church End, Barnet, N3 2RY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010145423
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5000
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5000 in Barnet, 6 July 2016
At the same spotRef 201601SX20640
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5000 in Barnet, 6 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010SG0369
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A5000 in Barnet, 1 December 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010612847
Slight
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 2 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200101SX01661
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A5000 in Barnet, 18 January 1993
10 m awayRef 199301SG00022
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 5 November 2015
14 m awayRef 201501SX21113
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 83, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2018010145423 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 2018.