A406 crash in Enfield on 6 March 1997 at 18:33 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A406 in Enfield at 18:33 on Thursday 6 March 1997. The 30-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 1997
- Thursday, 18:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61264, longitude -0.10699, in the N13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701YE00161
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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 serious injury crash on 10 September 2000.
Serious
Yamaha YZF 600 R crash on the A406 in Enfield, 10 September 2000
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Slight
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Nissan Micra crash on the A406 in Enfield, 15 March 2013
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Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A406 in Enfield, 23 March 2004
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199701YE00161 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 1997.