Serious unclassified road crash in Hillingdon UB7 on 15 November 1983 at 15:35 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hillingdon at 15:35 on Tuesday 15 November 1983. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 1983
- Tuesday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51531, longitude -0.46846, in the UB7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010IW0854
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 24 December 1982
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 28 March 1984
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 9 July 1982
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Serious
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 22 April 1990
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1983010IW0854 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 1983.