A109 crash in Barnet on 31 December 2019 at 21:15 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A109 in Barnet at 21:15 on Tuesday 31 December 2019. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes A Class and the 59-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2019
- Tuesday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62141, longitude -0.14943, in the N11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Friern Barnet, Barnet, N11 3HN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010227985
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 109
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1995.
Slight
MCW crash on the A109 in Barnet, 30 August 1995
5 m awayRef 199501SA00747
Slight
Dennis crash on the A109 in Barnet, 5 April 1997
5 m awayRef 199701SA00277
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A109 in Barnet, 6 February 1999
18 m awayRef 199901SC00223
Slight
Dennis crash on the A109 in Barnet, 1 March 2001
32 m awayRef 200101SX00294
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A109 in Barnet, 27 October 1995
32 m awayRef 199501SG00519
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A109 in Barnet, 5 May 1990
40 m awayRef 199001SA00393
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019010227985 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 2019.