C road crash in Havering RM12 on 25 April 1997 at 21:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Havering at 21:00 on Friday 25 April 1997. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 1997
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55546, longitude 0.23007, in the RM12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701KD00351
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 20 June 1996.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 20 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601KD00597
Slight
Rover Montego crash on a C road in Havering, 30 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901KD00903
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Havering, 6 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199501KD00088
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Havering, 4 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801KD00195
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Havering, 7 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801KD01096
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on a C road in Havering, 14 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201KD00219
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199701KD00351 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.