Serious C road crash in Havering RM2 on 26 January 1998 at 13:10 involving a Rover 800 Series
A Rover 800 Series hit a pedestrian on a C road in Havering at 13:10 on Monday 26 January 1998. A 38-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jan 1998
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 800 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58391, longitude 0.20938, in the RM2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801KD00125
- Council area
- Havering
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 23 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901KD00342
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 7 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198401KD00967
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Havering, 16 November 1990
10 m awayRef 199001KD01160
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Havering, 30 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198501KD00532
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Havering, 29 August 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010129500
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on a C road in Havering, 16 April 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199801KD00125 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 1998.