A1(M) crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 9 January 1994 at 14:30 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A1(M) in Welwyn Hatfield at 14:30 on Sunday 9 January 1994. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 1994
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83014, longitude -0.20934, in the AL6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944100T2002
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 1996.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A1(M) in Welwyn Hatfield, 24 July 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100T2054
Slight
Audi A2 crash on the A1(M) in Welwyn Hatfield, 25 October 2001
10 m awayRef 20014100T2096
Serious
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A1(M) in Welwyn Hatfield, 30 January 1995
14 m awayRef 19954100T2007
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1(M) in Welwyn Hatfield, 1 March 2000
20 m awayRef 20004100T2016
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A1(M) in Welwyn Hatfield, 28 March 2001
20 m awayRef 20014100T2028
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1(M) in Welwyn Hatfield, 15 January 1996
30 m awayRef 19964100T2004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 19944100T2002 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.