A308 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 10 September 1998 at 00:05 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea at 00:05 on Thursday 10 September 1998. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 1998
- Thursday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48786, longitude -0.17784, in the SW10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801BS00561
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 308
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 17 September 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010205838
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 5 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010613705
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 20 July 2024
11 m awayRef 2024010522823
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 26 April 2001
22 m awayRef 200101BS00348
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 25 August 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010BD0293
Slight
Bus crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 20 September 1997
22 m awayRef 199701BS00577
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,291 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 199801BS00561 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.