C road crash in Merton SW19 on 15 December 2018 at 07:50 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series hit a pedestrian on a C road in Merton at 07:50 on Saturday 15 December 2018. An 82-year-old male 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
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42116, longitude -0.22031, in the SW19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Village, Merton, SW19 4TQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010152243
- Council area
- Merton
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Merton, 6 February 1985
At the same spotRef 198501VW00086
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Merton, 8 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199301ZM00072
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on a C road in Merton, 18 June 1997
10 m awayRef 199701VW00343
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Merton, 10 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199801VW00074
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Merton, 22 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198901VW00048
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Merton, 15 April 1985
10 m awayRef 198501VW00231
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 82, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2018010152243 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2018.