Serious C road crash in Redbridge IG6 on 28 December 1986 at 21:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Redbridge at 21:50 on Sunday 28 December 1986. The 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1986
- Sunday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58242, longitude 0.08431, in the IG6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redbridge.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601JB00850
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 June 1987.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Redbridge, 26 June 1987
10 m awayRef 198701JB00447
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Redbridge, 24 December 2021
20 m awayRef 2021010351779
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on a C road in Redbridge, 12 June 2011
20 m awayRef 201101JI40360
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Redbridge, 6 December 1987
50 m awayRef 198701JB00865
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Redbridge, 26 January 2020
54 m awayRef 2020010232792
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Redbridge, 3 October 1987
61 m awayRef 198701JB00653
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198601JB00850 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 1986.