C road crash in Havering RM3 on 24 January 2003 at 18:05 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on a C road in Havering at 18:05 on Friday 24 January 2003. A 15-year-old female 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
- 24 Jan 2003
- Friday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6076, longitude 0.21894, in the RM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gooshays, Havering, RM3 7UJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301KD00085
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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 serious injury crash on 6 October 1993.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Havering, 6 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199301KD00831
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Havering, 3 April 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010029907
Serious
Renault Kangoo crash on a C road in Havering, 12 June 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010042397
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Havering, 21 October 2024
12 m awayRef 2024010539007
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 1 September 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010KD0792
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on a C road in Havering, 2 September 2001
22 m awayRef 200101KD00716
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200301KD00085 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 2003.