Serious B178 crash in Barking and Dagenham on 1 April 2021 at 16:55 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a DAF Trucks van were involved in a crash on the B178 in Barking and Dagenham at 16:55 on Thursday 1 April 2021. The 51-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz was seriously injured and the 51-year-old male driver of the DAF Trucks van 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
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Apr 2021
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53804, longitude 0.16403, in the RM10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Village, Barking and Dagenham, RM10 9TX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021010299536
- Council area
- Barking and Dagenham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 178
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B178 in Barking and Dagenham, 31 August 1999
6 m awayRef 199901KG00571
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B178 in Barking and Dagenham, 10 September 1982
6 m awayRef 1982010KG0581
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B178 in Barking and Dagenham, 28 November 2001
6 m awayRef 200101KG00688
Serious
Car crash on the B178 in Barking and Dagenham, 14 February 1987
6 m awayRef 198701KG00074
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B178 in Barking and Dagenham, 22 June 1994
6 m awayRef 199401KG00348
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the B178 in Barking and Dagenham, 18 January 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010231266
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (DAF Trucks)
- 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 2021010299536 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barking and Dagenham road accident statistics for 2021.