C road crash in East Hertfordshire SG9 on 26 October 1981 at 09:20 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in East Hertfordshire at 09:20 on Monday 26 October 1981. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 1981
- Monday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92842, longitude 0.08561, in the SG9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19814141A2145
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 139 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2020.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 13 February 2020
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 23 March 1980
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 26 October 1981
224 m awayRef 19814141A2144
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 6 July 2003
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Serious
Volkswagen Crafter crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 24 April 2022
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Serious
Van crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 24 April 2009
275 m awayRef 20094100A0262
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19814141A2145 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 1981.