Unclassified road crash in Merton SM4 on 15 December 2025 at 14:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merton at 14:00 on Monday 15 December 2025. A 74-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39311, longitude -0.22209, in the SM4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Morden, Merton, SM4 4JR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010615664
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 July 2021.
Serious
Honda SH 125 crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 11 July 2021
22 m awayRef 2021010318595
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the B279 in Merton, 15 October 1993
27 m awayRef 199301ZM00679
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 13 April 2025
27 m awayRef 2025010569417
Serious
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B279 in Merton, 6 October 1993
57 m awayRef 199301ZM00641
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 22 April 1988
63 m awayRef 198801VW00251
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 7 April 2000
67 m awayRef 200001VW00224
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025010615664 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.