Unclassified road crash in Merton SM4 on 10 September 2025 at 18:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Merton at 18:00 on Wednesday 10 September 2025. The 42-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2025
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.397, longitude -0.19008, 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
- 2025010597005
- 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
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 239
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 28 July 2025.
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A239 in Merton, 28 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010589102
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A239 in Merton, 17 December 2012
5 m awayRef 201201VW40482
Slight
Car crash on the A239 in Merton, 25 March 1987
5 m awayRef 198701VW00174
Serious
Car crash on the A239 in Merton, 29 November 1999
5 m awayRef 199901VW00710
Serious
Car crash on the A239 in Merton, 12 October 1988
5 m awayRef 198801VW00640
Slight
Car crash on the A239 in Merton, 17 April 2011
5 m awayRef 201101VW40132
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025010597005 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 2025.