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Fatal unclassified road crash in Tendring CO15 on 18 November 1997 at 16:00 involving a Land Rover Range Rover

A Land Rover Range Rover hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tendring at 16:00 on Tuesday 18 November 1997. A 76-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Fatal
Date
18 Nov 1997
Tuesday, 16:00
Vehicles
1
Land Rover Range Rover
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79335, longitude 1.1481, in the CO15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clacton-on-Sea.

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19974200D0464
Council area
Tendring
Police force
Essex
Highway authority
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    66 years
    Engine capacity
    3,947 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    5 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Female, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Range Rover)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 19974200D0464 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1997.