C road crash in Havering RM3 on 13 July 1997 at 21:35 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on a C road in Havering at 21:35 on Sunday 13 July 1997. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 1997
- Sunday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62211, longitude 0.22915, in the RM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701KD00595
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 18 June 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010KD0586
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 13 August 1982
28 m awayRef 1982010KD0764
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Havering, 10 May 1998
32 m awayRef 199801KD00396
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Havering, 30 August 1990
42 m awayRef 199001KD00876
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on a C road in Havering, 27 December 1996
57 m awayRef 199601KD01190
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Toyota Yaris crash on a C road in Havering, 8 December 2022
59 m awayRef 2022010415249
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 199701KD00595 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.