Serious unclassified road crash in Havering RM5 on 17 February 1997 at 11:55 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Havering at 11:55 on Monday 17 February 1997. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 1997
- Monday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60784, longitude 0.16534, in the RM5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701KD00240
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2008.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 199701KD00240 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.