A1400 crash in Redbridge on 20 December 2025 at 21:42 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on the A1400 in Redbridge at 21:42 on Saturday 20 December 2025. The 30-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 21:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57637, longitude 0.0667, in the IG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barkingside, Redbridge, IG2 6LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Redbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010616797
- Council area
- Redbridge
- 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
- 1400
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 123
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2019.
Slight
Bus crash on the A12 in Redbridge, 19 April 2019
1 m awayRef 2019010178112
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A12 in Redbridge, 30 May 1995
3 m awayRef 199501JI00283
Slight
Honda NSC110E crash on the A12 in Redbridge, 25 March 2019
3 m awayRef 2019010171215
Slight
Volvo crash on the A123 in Redbridge, 1 June 2009
3 m awayRef 200901JI40315
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A12 in Redbridge, 5 May 2001
3 m awayRef 200101JI00439
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A12 in Redbridge, 12 December 2002
3 m awayRef 200201JI01097
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 2025010616797 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 2025.