B197 crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 3 August 1994 at 19:00 involving a Suzuki Supercarry
A Suzuki Supercarry crashed on the B197 in Welwyn Hatfield at 19:00 on Wednesday 3 August 1994. The 20-year-old male driver and a 26-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 1994
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Supercarry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84044, longitude -0.22403, in the AL6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944100B2198
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 197
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 1997.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire, 16 February 1997
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Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B656 in Welwyn Hatfield, 21 October 1998
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Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire, 24 March 2011
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire, 17 September 1991
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire, 13 December 1986
71 m awayRef 19864141B2212
Serious
Ford crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire, 22 May 1990
71 m awayRef 19904141B0391
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Supercarry
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Supercarry)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Supercarry)
- 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 19944100B2198 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Welwyn Hatfield road accident statistics for 1994.