A1112 crash in Redbridge on 19 July 1997 at 19:45 involving an Austin Maestro
An Austin Maestro and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A1112 in Redbridge at 19:45 on Saturday 19 July 1997. A male passenger aged under 1 in the Austin Maestro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 1997
- Saturday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Maestro and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61034, longitude 0.12689, in the IG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701JB00595
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1112
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B174 in Redbridge, 17 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198401JB00835
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1112 in Redbridge, 8 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199201JD00447
Serious
Car crash on the B174 in Redbridge, 10 May 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010JB0283
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1112 in Redbridge, 24 September 2025
14 m awayRef 2025010599486
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A1112 in Redbridge, 29 October 1993
14 m awayRef 199301JD00376
Serious
Car crash on the B174 in Redbridge, 2 April 1988
14 m awayRef 198801JB00252
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged under 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Maestro)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199701JB00595 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 1997.