Unclassified road crash in Hertsmere WD25 on 27 May 1986 at 00:45 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Hertsmere at 00:45 on Tuesday 27 May 1986. All six casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 1986
- Tuesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 6
- 6 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6659, longitude -0.33454, in the WD25 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601SA00390
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 9 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198601SA00858
Slight
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Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 16 July 2002
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 28 May 1985
14 m awayRef 198501SA00349
Serious
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 6 October 2002
20 m awayRef 20024100J2779
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (6)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 6: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198601SA00390 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 1986.