Serious B162 crash in Havering on 30 September 1987 at 05:00 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the B162 in Havering at 05:00 on Wednesday 30 September 1987. The 43-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Sep 1987
- Wednesday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57341, longitude 0.17914, in the RM7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701KD00915
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 162
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 43, 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 198701KD00915 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 1987.