C road crash in Havering RM11 on 29 January 1997 at 23:54 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 23:54 on Wednesday 29 January 1997. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 1997
- Wednesday, 23:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56676, longitude 0.2364, in the RM11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701KD00095
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2003.
Slight
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 6 June 1983
30 m awayRef 1983010KD0529
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 27 June 1998
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 8 November 1982
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 2 February 1986
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
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 199701KD00095 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 1997.