Unclassified road crash in Havering RM1 on 23 December 2025 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and an Audi Q7 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 16:00 on Tuesday 23 December 2025. The 50-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and a passenger in the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Audi Q7
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60155, longitude 0.18371, in the RM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marshalls & Rise Park, Havering, RM1 4UJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010640244
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 163 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2005.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on a C road in Havering, 18 January 2005
163 m awayRef 200501KD50038
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Havering, 26 March 1984
163 m awayRef 198401KD00260
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Havering, 4 June 1995
163 m awayRef 199501KD00472
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Havering, 7 February 2001
163 m awayRef 200101KD00148
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Havering, 18 December 1997
163 m awayRef 199701KD01178
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Havering, 22 October 2003
163 m awayRef 200301KD00709
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Audi Q7
Car
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightCar occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025010640244 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.