A109 crash in Barnet on 29 October 1997 at 08:40 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A109 in Barnet at 08:40 on Wednesday 29 October 1997. The 48-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 1997
- Wednesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63006, longitude -0.1736, in the N20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701SA00898
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 109
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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 20 November 2002.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A109 in Barnet, 20 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200201SX01519
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A109 in Barnet, 22 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801SA00055
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A109 in Barnet, 1 May 2016
At the same spotRef 201601SX20435
Serious
Car crash on the A109 in Barnet, 20 June 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010450360
Slight
Volvo crash on the A109 in Barnet, 7 November 2023
10 m awayRef 2023010476540
Slight
Minibus crash on the A109 in Barnet, 24 May 1989
10 m awayRef 198901SA00413
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, 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 199701SA00898 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1997.