A120 crash in East Hertfordshire on 8 September 1990 at 18:50 involving a Lancia Beta
A Lancia Beta crashed on the A120 in East Hertfordshire at 18:50 on Saturday 8 September 1990. A 15-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 1990
- Saturday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lancia Beta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87633, longitude 0.13259, in the CM23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19904141A0373
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 120
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1250
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 slight injury crash on 11 December 1989.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 11 December 1989
At the same spotRef 19894141A2184
Slight
Car crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 17 July 1988
At the same spotRef 19884141A2115
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 19 October 1985
At the same spotRef 19854141A2150
Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 10 July 2014
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Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 27 November 2001
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lancia Beta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,585 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lancia Beta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 19904141A0373 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 1990.