A217 crash in Merton on 2 December 2025 at 12:45 involving a Hyundai ix20
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai ix20
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39515, longitude -0.17352, in the SM4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ravensbury, Merton, CR4 4GL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010612979
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 217
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 5 March 2002.
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on the A217 in Merton, 5 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200201VW00117
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A217 in Merton, 17 November 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010002090
Fatal
Alexander Dennis crash on the A217 in Merton, 12 November 2022
11 m awayRef 2022010410075
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the A217 in Merton, 1 March 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010561691
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A217 in Merton, 20 July 2022
17 m awayRef 2022010389405
Slight
Bus crash on the A217 in Merton, 17 June 1983
17 m awayRef 1983010VW0348
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai ix20
Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai ix20)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025010612979 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.