B176 crash in Broxbourne on 18 December 1983 at 02:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the B176 in Broxbourne at 02:05 on Sunday 18 December 1983. A 24-year-old female passenger and the 22-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1983
- Sunday, 02:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71223, longitude -0.03335, in the EN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheshunt.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010YF0897
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 176
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 July 2022.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 9 July 2022
8 m awayRef 2022411208100
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 11 November 2013
14 m awayRef 20134100K0531
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 2 September 1997
14 m awayRef 199701YF00606
Slight
Car crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 9 August 1986
22 m awayRef 198601YF00540
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 3 October 2018
30 m awayRef 2018410802026
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A10 in Broxbourne, 16 February 1994
36 m awayRef 199401YC00029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 1983010YF0897 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 1983.