A5 crash in Barnet on 16 September 1997 at 20:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A5 in Barnet at 20:30 on Tuesday 16 September 1997. The 21-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 1997
- Tuesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6118, longitude -0.28063, in the HA8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701SC00640
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- 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 24 November 1994.
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 24 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401SV00779
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 12 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010SW0025
Slight
Nissan Serena crash on the A5 in Barnet, 17 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301SX00057
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A5 in Barnet, 28 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701SV00241
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in Barnet, 5 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601QA10357
Slight
BMW crash on the A5 in Barnet, 26 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199601QA00649
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199701SC00640 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.