C road crash in Havering RM1 on 15 January 2020 at 18:30 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 18:30 on Wednesday 15 January 2020. The 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Connect van and the 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus 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
- 15 Jan 2020
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57704, longitude 0.19379, in the RM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Edward's, Havering, RM2 5LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010230645
- Council area
- Havering
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 January 1987.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 6 January 1987
4 m awayRef 198701KD00012
Slight
Bedford crash on a C road in Havering, 19 July 1991
4 m awayRef 199101KD00610
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Havering, 8 April 2005
4 m awayRef 200501KD50228
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Havering, 29 October 1986
4 m awayRef 198601KD00938
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Havering, 28 December 1994
4 m awayRef 199401KD01037
Serious
Nissan Cabstar crash on a C road in Havering, 11 April 2003
4 m awayRef 200301KD00294
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Connect)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020010230645 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2020.