B1004 crash in East Hertfordshire on 26 July 1992 at 00:05 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire at 00:05 on Sunday 26 July 1992. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 1992
- Sunday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82289, longitude 0.04286, in the SG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19924141A0290
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1004
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 October 2019.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 10 October 2019
73 m awayRef 2019410895141
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 23 November 2012
86 m awayRef 20124100A0760
Slight
Car crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 23 March 1979
92 m awayRef 19794141A1059
Slight
Car crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 23 September 1989
92 m awayRef 19894141A1179
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 3 September 2005
99 m awayRef 20054100A9999
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 17 October 2025
108 m awayRef 2025411661507
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 19924141A0290 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.