A239 crash in Merton on 22 May 2021 at 18:30 involving a Dacia Sandero
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 2021
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dacia Sandero and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39565, longitude -0.15941, in the CR4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cricket Green, Merton, CR4 4HN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021010309082
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 239
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- A
- Second road number
- 237
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A239 in Merton, 27 August 1997
4 m awayRef 199701VW00498
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A239 in Merton, 16 May 2011
6 m awayRef 201101VW40165
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A237 in Merton, 5 February 1986
10 m awayRef 198601VW00080
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A239 in Merton, 28 June 2015
16 m awayRef 201501VW40287
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A239 in Merton, 4 February 2016
20 m awayRef 201601VW40068
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A239 in Merton, 1 April 2001
20 m awayRef 200101VW00168
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dacia Sandero
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dacia Sandero)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2021010309082 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 2021.