Unclassified road crash in Stevenage SG2 on 3 August 1997 at 18:10 involving a Bedford
A Bedford hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Stevenage at 18:10 on Sunday 3 August 1997. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was 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
- 3 Aug 1997
- Sunday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bedford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88223, longitude -0.18141, in the SG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100E0169
- Council area
- Stevenage
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
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
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Bedford)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 19974100E0169 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 1997.