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Unclassified road crash in Runnymede TW20 on 1 April 1997 at 14:35 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Runnymede at 14:35 on Tuesday 1 April 1997. An 8-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
1 Apr 1997
Tuesday, 14:35
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42954, longitude -0.54757, in the TW20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Egham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199745NA00142
Council area
Runnymede
Police force
Surrey
Highway authority
Surrey

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
C

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 16 January 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    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 199745NA00142 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 1997.