A406 crash in Waltham Forest on 29 November 1998 at 09:39 involving a Renault lorry
A Renault lorry and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest at 09:39 on Sunday 29 November 1998. A 24-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Freelander was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 1998
- Sunday, 09:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault and Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60516, longitude -0.02455, 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
- 199801JC00519
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 2020.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 18 September 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010268639
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 10 September 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010204557
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 13 September 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010JC0564
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 8 December 2011
14 m awayRef 201101JC30638
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 23 November 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010611256
Slight
Bentley Continental crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 15 December 2018
20 m awayRef 2018010152288
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,116 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199801JC00519 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.