Unclassified road crash in Broxbourne EN7 on 11 December 1997 at 18:30 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada crashed on an unclassified road in Broxbourne at 18:30 on Thursday 11 December 1997. A 47-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 1997
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72449, longitude -0.08379, in the EN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701YF00871
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Broxbourne, 10 November 1984
36 m awayRef 198401YF00804
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Broxbourne, 30 July 1986
41 m awayRef 198601YF00507
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on a C road in Broxbourne, 19 October 2010
51 m awayRef 20104100K0550
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 27 January 1996
54 m awayRef 199601YF00173
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Broxbourne, 4 April 1997
89 m awayRef 199701YF00242
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Broxbourne, 21 May 1988
108 m awayRef 198801YF00364
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,792 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199701YF00871 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.