The death of Bridget Driscoll (née Swift;[1] c. 1851 – 17 August 1896) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in Great Britain.

[2][3] Driscoll was born in Ireland but living in Surrey with her husband and children at the time of her death.

[1] She was in the company of her teenage daughter May and her friend Elizabeth Murphy and was crossing Dolphin Terrace in the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London when she was struck by the driver of a car belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company that was being used to give demonstration rides.

The coroner, Percy Morrison (Croydon division of Surrey), said he hoped "such a thing would never happen again".

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents estimated 550,000 people had been killed on UK roads by 2010.