B156 crash in Broxbourne on 1 December 1997 at 07:00 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A bicycle and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on the B156 in Broxbourne at 07:00 on Monday 1 December 1997. The 61-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 1997
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Vauxhall Nova
- 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
- 199701YF00843
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 156
- Road type
- Roundabout
- 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
- 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 21 July 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 21 July 2000
At the same spotRef 20004100K0271
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Fiat Punto crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 30 September 1997
At the same spotRef 199701YF00669
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Car crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 26 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801YF00067
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Lorry crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 27 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198601YF00883
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 4 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401YC00221
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Volkswagen Polo crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 15 March 2023
3 m awayRef 2023411289434
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 61, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 199701YF00843 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.