B156 crash in Broxbourne on 30 September 1997 at 21:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and an Isuzu Trooper were involved in a crash on the B156 in Broxbourne at 21:00 on Tuesday 30 September 1997. The 18-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 1997
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Isuzu Trooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70668, longitude -0.06182, in the EN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701YF00669
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 156
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 198
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 1 December 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 1 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701YF00843
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 21 July 2000
At the same spotRef 20004100K0271
Slight
Car crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 26 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801YF00067
Slight
Lorry crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 27 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198601YF00883
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 4 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401YC00221
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 15 March 2023
3 m awayRef 2023411289434
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Isuzu Trooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,254 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 199701YF00669 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.