Serious C road crash in Havering RM3 on 28 March 1997 at 16:23 involving a Renault Master van
A Renault Master van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Havering at 16:23 on Friday 28 March 1997. A 4-year-old male 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Mar 1997
- Friday, 16:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Master
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61099, longitude 0.21821, in the RM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701KD00265
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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 slight injury crash on 24 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 24 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010KD1177
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Havering, 17 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198601KD00317
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Havering, 14 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199001KD01322
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 23 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198801KD01146
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Havering, 14 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201101KD50077
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 7 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198401KD00381
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Master
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Master)
- 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 199701KD00265 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.