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Serious unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG9 on 26 December 1992 at 12:59 involving a Rover Range Rover

A Rover Range Rover hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 12:59 on Saturday 26 December 1992. An 82-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
26 Dec 1992
Saturday, 12:59
Vehicles
1
Rover Range Rover
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62914, longitude 0.03024, in the IG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buckhurst Hill.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199201JB00436
Council area
Epping Forest
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover Range Rover

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    48 years
    Engine capacity
    3,528 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 82, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover Range Rover)

    Pedestrian location
    In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
    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 199201JB00436 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 1992.