Unclassified road crash in Hertsmere WD6 on 17 February 1997 at 12:00 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on an unclassified road in Hertsmere at 12:00 on Monday 17 February 1997. The 40-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 1997
- Monday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66032, longitude -0.32145, in the WD6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701SA00152
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1982.
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 14 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010SA0038
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Car crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 17 May 1988
10 m awayRef 198801SA00352
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 28 July 1984
10 m awayRef 198401SA00550
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 6 August 1987
10 m awayRef 198701SA00581
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 12 April 2000
22 m awayRef 20004100J1034
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 26 December 1991
78 m awayRef 199101SA00985
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 199701SA00152 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 1997.