Unclassified road crash in Enfield N18 on 15 September 2017 at 20:40 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Enfield at 20:40 on Friday 15 September 2017. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2017
- Friday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61125, longitude -0.04448, in the N18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upper Edmonton, Enfield, N18 2FG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Enfield
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010059261
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2008.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 30 August 2008
14 m awayRef 200801YE80698
Slight
MAN crash on the A406 in Enfield, 24 September 2004
14 m awayRef 200401TC00919
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A406 in Enfield, 20 October 2025
22 m awayRef 2025010604813
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A406 in Enfield, 13 May 2017
22 m awayRef 2017010037214
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 13 April 2018
22 m awayRef 2018010101621
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 26 February 2009
22 m awayRef 200901YE80119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010059261 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 2017.