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Serious A4 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 29 April 1998 at 15:15 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry

An Iveco-Ford lorry hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea at 15:15 on Wednesday 29 April 1998. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Apr 1998
Wednesday, 15:15
Vehicles
1
Iveco-Ford
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49549, longitude -0.17639, in the SW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199801BS00262
Council area
Kensington and Chelsea
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2014.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Iveco-Ford)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199801BS00262 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 1998.