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Serious unclassified road crash in Stevenage SG2 on 1 January 1998 at 01:09 involving a Rover 800 Series

A Rover 800 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Stevenage at 01:09 on Thursday 1 January 1998. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Jan 1998
Thursday, 01:09
Vehicles
1
Rover 800 Series
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8796, longitude -0.16873, in the SG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19984100E0003
Council area
Stevenage
Police force
Hertfordshire
Highway authority
Hertfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    52 years
    Engine capacity
    2,675 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)

    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 19984100E0003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 1998.