Serious A124 crash in Barking and Dagenham on 5 July 2017 at 15:30 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 hit a pedestrian on the A124 in Barking and Dagenham at 15:30 on Wednesday 5 July 2017. A 35-year-old male 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
- 5 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5423, longitude 0.0851, in the IG11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barking and Dagenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Loxford, Redbridge, IG1 2RG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010046784
- Council area
- Barking and Dagenham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 124
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2025.
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A124 in Barking and Dagenham, 24 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010611352
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A124 in Barking and Dagenham, 6 December 2008
20 m awayRef 200801KG76713
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A124 in Barking and Dagenham, 30 March 2012
22 m awayRef 201201KG70169
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A124 in Barking and Dagenham, 3 May 2014
28 m awayRef 201401KG70193
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A124 in Barking and Dagenham, 25 October 2014
28 m awayRef 201401KG70472
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the A124 in Barking and Dagenham, 18 May 2018
28 m awayRef 2018010108688
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2017010046784 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barking and Dagenham road accident statistics for 2017.