C road crash in Havering RM3 on 17 October 2025 at 12:52 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1, a BMW 3 Series and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 12:52 on Friday 17 October 2025. The 52-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2025
- Friday, 12:52
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi A1 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59036, longitude 0.25279, in the RM3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harold Wood, Havering, RM3 0NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010604332
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 June 2021.
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on a C road in Havering, 25 June 2021
3 m awayRef 2021010315745
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Havering, 30 May 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010184155
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Havering, 4 February 1997
5 m awayRef 199701KD00114
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on a C road in Havering, 30 May 2007
5 m awayRef 200701KD62904
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Havering, 22 January 2012
5 m awayRef 201201KD50005
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Havering, 10 June 2002
5 m awayRef 200201KD00453
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025010604332 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 2025.