A239 crash in Merton on 5 August 2024 at 03:15 involving a Nissan Juke
A Nissan Juke and a Vauxhall Crossland were involved in a crash on the A239 in Merton at 03:15 on Monday 5 August 2024. The 31-year-old female driver of the Nissan Juke was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2024
- Monday, 03:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Juke and Vauxhall Crossland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.396, longitude -0.19166, in the SM4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Helier, Merton, SM4 5LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024010525468
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 239
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2021.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A239 in Merton, 17 January 2021
3 m awayRef 2021010289328
Slight
Van crash on the A239 in Merton, 10 December 1984
11 m awayRef 198401VW00856
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A239 in Merton, 11 July 1982
39 m awayRef 1982010VW0451
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A239 in Merton, 30 August 2017
45 m awayRef 2017010056530
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A239 in Merton, 7 November 2015
45 m awayRef 201501VW40609
Serious
Nissan Serena crash on the A239 in Merton, 27 July 2003
53 m awayRef 200301VW00362
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,612 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Crossland
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Juke)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024010525468 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 2024.