Serious unclassified road crash in Enfield EN1 on 30 October 2023 at 20:07 involving a BMW 5 Series taxi
A BMW 5 Series taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Enfield at 20:07 on Monday 30 October 2023. A 43-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Oct 2023
- Monday, 20:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65153, longitude -0.07949, in the EN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town, Enfield, EN1 3EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Enfield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010474969
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2018.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 29 July 2018
11 m awayRef 2018010128407
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 26 February 2018
11 m awayRef 2018010092716
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 8 December 2018
12 m awayRef 2018010156004
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 9 October 2018
14 m awayRef 2018010138172
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 27 April 2009
19 m awayRef 200901YE80231
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 29 October 2003
19 m awayRef 200301YF00441
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023010474969 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 2023.