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Serious A217 crash in Hammersmith and Fulham on 20 August 1997 at 20:16 involving a BMW 5 Series

A BMW 5 Series hit a pedestrian on the A217 in Hammersmith and Fulham at 20:16 on Wednesday 20 August 1997. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
20 Aug 1997
Wednesday, 20:16
Vehicles
1
BMW 5 Series
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47433, longitude -0.19221, 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
199701FF00263
Council area
Hammersmith and Fulham
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
217
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 25 May 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    1,796 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)

    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 199701FF00263 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.