Is Gallows Corner Havering’s Most Dangerous Junction?
Gallows Corner has long been a concern for motorists travelling through Romford, but is it Havering’s most dangerous junction? Collision figures highlight the scale of road safety concerns across the borough, although further investigation is needed before any single junction can be confirmed as having the highest accident rate.
Gallows Corner is one of Havering’s busiest and most complex road junctions, connecting the A12, A127 and Main Road. Thousands of vehicles pass through the area, making road safety an important issue for local motorists.
Figures published by Transport for London recorded 721 personal injury collisions in the wider Gallows Corner area between September 1981 and August 2021.
However, the figures cover a broad geographical area over four decades and do not relate exclusively to the roundabout itself. They also do not establish how Gallows Corner compares with every other junction in Havering over the same period.
Nevertheless, the historic figures raise questions about road safety at one of the borough’s most important road connections.
Other Havering junctions have also raised concerns
Gallows Corner is not the only location where collision figures have prompted attention.
At the junction of New Road and Marsh Way in Rainham, Havering Council reported 28 personal injury accidents over a five-year period, including three involving serious injuries.
Meanwhile, at the junction of Main Road, Pettits Lane South and Erroll Road in Romford, council collision records identified 14 personal injury accidents in analysis supporting proposed safety improvements.
These figures highlight the importance of examining collision data across the borough rather than focusing on one location alone.
However, the figures relate to different locations and reporting periods, so they cannot be used as a direct league table of Havering’s most dangerous junctions.
Which junction has the most accidents?
Establishing the answer requires comparable figures for the same period and consistent geographical boundaries.
Police-recorded personal injury collision data can help identify locations where people have been injured in road traffic incidents. However, these figures do not capture every collision, particularly incidents where nobody is injured.
It is also important to distinguish between the number of collisions and the risk faced by individual motorists. A busy junction may record more collisions simply because it handles far more traffic than a smaller junction.
To establish which junction has recorded the most accidents, the latest five years of comparable data would need to be examined, including collisions resulting in fatal, serious and slight injuries.
Transport for London and Havering Council are key sources for this information, particularly where responsibility for individual roads and junctions differs.
Havering motorists deserve answers.
For residents who regularly travel through Gallows Corner, Rainham and other busy parts of the borough, road safety is a practical concern.
Drivers want to know whether junction layouts are safe, whether improvements are needed and whether locations with repeated collisions are receiving sufficient attention.
At present, the available figures do not conclusively establish that Gallows Corner is Havering’s most dangerous junction. They do, however, demonstrate why a borough-wide comparison would be valuable.
The question now is whether the latest collision figures can identify the junctions where the greatest number of people are being injured, helping residents and decision-makers understand where road safety improvements may be most urgently needed.
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The problem with Gallows Corner junction is obvious, some drivers use it as a race track. Something definitely needs to be done about it.
Further to my comment, it doesn’t help by drivers not sticking to their lane and cutting across other drivers. In other words bad driving.