Serious unclassified road crash in Barnet NW2 on 28 December 2018 at 01:36 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Barnet at 01:36 on Friday 28 December 2018. A 27-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 2018
- Friday, 01:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56934, longitude -0.21886, in the NW2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Hendon, Barnet, NW4 3AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010154645
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
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 22 July 2013.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 22 July 2013
At the same spotRef 201301SX20614
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Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 6 December 2019
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 14 March 1994
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 13 November 1998
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018010154645 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.