Serious B318 crash in Hammersmith and Fulham on 31 July 1997 at 12:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B318 in Hammersmith and Fulham at 12:00 on Thursday 31 July 1997. A 41-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jul 1997
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47913, longitude -0.19475, in the SW6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hammersmith and Fulham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701FF00231
- Council area
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 318
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, 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 15 May 2012.
Slight
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Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the B318 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 20 February 2002
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Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the B318 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 19 September 2003
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the B318 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 9 September 1998
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Slight
Lexmoto LXR crash on the B318 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 21 June 2025
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B318 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 2 February 2020
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 41, 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 199701FF00231 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hammersmith and Fulham road accident statistics for 1997.