M25 crash in Havering on 25 January 2022 at 20:05 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the M25 in Havering at 20:05 on Tuesday 25 January 2022. The 20-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2022
- Tuesday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57149, longitude 0.28502, in the RM14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herongate, Ingrave & West Horndon, Brentwood, CM13 3JT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010356877
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 127
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2024.
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the M25 in Havering, 23 August 2024
1 m awayRef 2024010528512
Slight
Honda VFR 800 crash on the M25 in Havering, 11 March 2024
1 m awayRef 2024010499209
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the M25 in Havering, 2 May 2000
3 m awayRef 200001KD00284
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A127 in Havering, 1 June 2013
3 m awayRef 201301KD50293
Slight
Scania crash on the M25 in Havering, 10 April 2017
3 m awayRef 2017010031355
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 5 September 1989
3 m awayRef 198901KD00952
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2022010356877 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 2022.