A121 crash in Broxbourne on 16 August 1985 at 13:05 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A121 in Broxbourne at 13:05 on Friday 16 August 1985. The 12-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 1985
- Friday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70173, longitude -0.03467, 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
- 198501YF00533
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 121
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 February 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A121 in Broxbourne, 14 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901YF00113
Slight
Car crash on the A121 in Broxbourne, 23 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199001YF00493
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1010 in Broxbourne, 19 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601YF00582
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in Broxbourne, 18 September 2018
9 m awayRef 2018410331150
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 24 July 2025
10 m awayRef 2025411621018
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A121 in Broxbourne, 13 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199601YF00721
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198501YF00533 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 1985.