Serious unclassified road crash in Bristol BS4 on 17 October 1989 at 15:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bristol at 15:40 on Tuesday 17 October 1989. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Oct 1989
- Tuesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43434, longitude -2.57523, in the BS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198952BR01398
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 1987.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 9 May 1987
32 m awayRef 198752BR00591
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 15 February 1987
92 m awayRef 198752BR00644
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 16 February 1987
98 m awayRef 198752BR00192
Slight
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110 m awayRef 19945294C1420
Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198952BR01398 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 1989.