B154 crash in Enfield on 14 September 1997 at 17:05 involving a Mercedes 200
A Mercedes 200 and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B154 in Enfield at 17:05 on Sunday 14 September 1997. A male passenger in the Mercedes 200 and an 11-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes 200 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 1997
- Sunday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes 200 and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62626, longitude -0.06554, in the N9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701YE00577
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 154
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 October 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B154 in Enfield, 10 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198601YE00584
Slight
Car crash on the B154 in Enfield, 2 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198801YE00647
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 24 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001YE00867
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B154 in Enfield, 31 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801YE00811
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B154 in Enfield, 15 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200201YE00373
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B154 in Enfield, 3 November 2011
10 m awayRef 201101YE80710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes 200)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes 200)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199701YE00577 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.