C road crash in East Hertfordshire SG2 on 26 December 1992 at 18:40 involving an MG Metro
An MG Metro and a Peugeot 405 were involved in a crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire at 18:40 on Saturday 26 December 1992. The 30-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 405 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 1992
- Saturday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG Metro and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88808, longitude -0.13569, in the SG2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19924100A0527
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 August 1985.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 15 August 1985
At the same spotRef 19854141E1147
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 17 July 1989
At the same spotRef 19894141E1150
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 17 December 2006
At the same spotRef 20064100A1055
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 23 August 2025
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Serious
Leyland Cars Mini crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 28 November 1995
10 m awayRef 19954100A0534
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 20 July 2004
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
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 19924100A0527 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.