C road crash in Waltham Forest E10 on 20 December 1998 at 11:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Waltham Forest at 11:20 on Sunday 20 December 1998. 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
- 20 Dec 1998
- Sunday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57064, longitude -0.0197, in the E10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801JL00529
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 April 1987.
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Waltham Forest, 16 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198701JL00158
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 28 October 1997
14 m awayRef 199701JL00416
Slight
Datsun 180 crash on a C road in Waltham Forest, 28 December 1991
22 m awayRef 199101JL00555
Serious
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Waltham Forest, 26 June 1998
28 m awayRef 199801JL00249
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Waltham Forest, 13 August 1997
32 m awayRef 199701JL00311
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Waltham Forest, 16 February 1993
50 m awayRef 199301JL00055
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199801JL00529 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.