Serious unclassified road crash in Broxbourne EN7 on 7 July 1997 at 14:15 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on an unclassified road in Broxbourne at 14:15 on Monday 7 July 1997. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jul 1997
- Monday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72542, longitude -0.10793, in the EN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701YF00465
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199701YF00465 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 1997.