B160 crash in Waltham Forest on 4 May 1998 at 21:45 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno hit a pedestrian on the B160 in Waltham Forest at 21:45 on Monday 4 May 1998. A 14-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
- 4 May 1998
- Monday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6269, longitude 0.00327, in the E4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801JC00210
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 160
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2018.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B160 in Waltham Forest, 28 December 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010155199
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the B160 in Waltham Forest, 22 April 2004
32 m awayRef 200401JC00238
Slight
Car crash on the B160 in Waltham Forest, 11 November 1985
40 m awayRef 198501JC00593
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B160 in Waltham Forest, 12 May 1998
41 m awayRef 199801JC00206
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B160 in Waltham Forest, 16 April 1990
51 m awayRef 199001JC00166
Serious
Car crash on the B160 in Waltham Forest, 11 June 1989
51 m awayRef 198901JC00259
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,116 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Uno)
- 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 199801JC00210 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 1998.