A5 crash in Barnet on 30 December 2022 at 20:07 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on the A5 in Barnet at 20:07 on Friday 30 December 2022. The 48-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2022
- Friday, 20:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58559, longitude -0.24943, in the NW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingsbury, Brent, NW9 0UL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010418991
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- Wet or damp
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 May 2007.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A5 in Barnet, 27 May 2007
4 m awayRef 200701QK62824
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Barnet, 11 November 1987
4 m awayRef 198701SW00642
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 4 April 1988
6 m awayRef 198801SW00197
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A5 in Barnet, 11 February 2017
6 m awayRef 2017010017851
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Barnet, 18 July 1987
6 m awayRef 198701SW00390
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A5 in Barnet, 24 August 2005
12 m awayRef 200501SX20721
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,318 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 2022010418991 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 2022.