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A406 crash in Barking and Dagenham on 21 June 1997 at 03:15 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A406 in Barking and Dagenham at 03:15 on Saturday 21 June 1997. The 27-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Jun 1997
Saturday, 03:15
Vehicles
2
Car and bicycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53718, longitude 0.06926, in the IG11 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Barking and Dagenham

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199701KO00262
Council area
Barking and Dagenham
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
406
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
50 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
124

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 10 June 1997.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 27, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)

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 199701KO00262 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barking and Dagenham road accident statistics for 1997.