B556 crash in Hertsmere on 21 January 1995 at 00:27 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 1995
- Saturday, 00:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69835, longitude -0.19921, in the EN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Potters Bar.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501SA00048
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 556
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 18 June 1999.
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the B556 in Hertsmere, 18 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901SA00250
Slight
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At the same spotRef 20134100J0006
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the B556 in Hertsmere, 13 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199501SA00611
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the B556 in Hertsmere, 14 October 2025
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Serious
Citroen BX crash on the B556 in Hertsmere, 13 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199201SA00750
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B556 in Hertsmere, 27 October 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100J2808
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199501SA00048 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 1995.