C road crash in Havering RM5 on 4 June 1997 at 21:45 involving a Honda VFR750F motorcycle
A Honda VFR750F motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 21:45 on Wednesday 4 June 1997. The 32-year-old male rider of the Honda VFR750F motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda VFR750F and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5979, longitude 0.15303, in the RM5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701KD00478
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 174
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2006.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 22 November 2006
10 m awayRef 200601KD50723
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B174 in Havering, 27 November 1990
10 m awayRef 199001KD01211
Slight
Hillman Minx crash on the B174 in Havering, 31 August 1992
10 m awayRef 199201KD00754
Serious
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 4 April 2006
10 m awayRef 200601KD50164
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B174 in Havering, 8 April 2016
10 m awayRef 201601KD50209
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B174 in Havering, 21 June 2019
11 m awayRef 2019010188760
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda VFR750F
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda VFR750F)
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 199701KD00478 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.