Serious A119 crash in East Hertfordshire on 5 November 1992 at 20:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A119 in East Hertfordshire at 20:45 on Thursday 5 November 1992. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Nov 1992
- Thursday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80776, longitude -0.02992, in the SG12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ware.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19924100A0430
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 119
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 2008.
Slight
Yiying YY 50 crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 19 September 2008
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Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 24 January 1996
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 9 July 2017
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Slight
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Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 1 August 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 19924100A0430 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 1992.