Unclassified road crash in Merton CR4 on 17 November 2025 at 15:19 involving a Volvo V90
A Volvo V90 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merton at 15:19 on Monday 17 November 2025. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Monday, 15:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo V90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4057, longitude -0.15519, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Figge's Marsh, Merton, CR4 2PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010610000
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 2015.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 27 February 2015
19 m awayRef 201501VW40105
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 14 December 1993
35 m awayRef 199301ZM00813
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 21 October 2019
37 m awayRef 2019010213058
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Merton, 15 June 1992
54 m awayRef 199201ZM00419
Slight
Seat Leon crash on a C road in Merton, 5 December 2014
54 m awayRef 201401VW49109
Fatal
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 22 April 1997
72 m awayRef 199701VW00219
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V90
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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo V90)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025010610000 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.