A217 crash in Wandsworth on 3 December 2018 at 19:20 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 and a car were involved in a crash on the A217 in Wandsworth at 19:20 on Monday 3 December 2018. The 25-year-old male driver of the BMW X5 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2018
- Monday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X5 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42801, longitude -0.16826, in the SW17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tooting Bec, Wandsworth, SW17 8SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wandsworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010149723
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 217
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 24
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 1995.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A217 in Wandsworth, 21 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501WW00410
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A24 in Wandsworth, 24 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201301WW50759
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A217 in Wandsworth, 1 April 2013
At the same spotRef 201301WW50190
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A24 in Wandsworth, 13 June 2023
5 m awayRef 2023010451761
Serious
Mercedes Vito crash on the A217 in Wandsworth, 3 June 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010311254
Slight
Van crash on the A24 in Wandsworth, 28 July 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010589172
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,926 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018010149723 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wandsworth road accident statistics for 2018.