Unclassified road crash in Enfield N11 on 13 August 1997 at 17:20 involving a Ford Escort
A bicycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Enfield at 17:20 on Wednesday 13 August 1997. The 17-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 1997
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61639, longitude -0.12821, in the N11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Enfield
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701YE00515
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 1994.
Slight
Toyota Model F crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 3 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199401YE00233
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 4 July 2009
14 m awayRef 200901YE80385
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 11 November 2025
26 m awayRef 2025010610193
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 21 June 1988
54 m awayRef 198801YE00391
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 31 July 1986
76 m awayRef 198601YE00426
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 20 October 1984
103 m awayRef 198401YE00560
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 17, on vehicle 1 (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 199701YE00515 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 1997.