B1004 crash in East Hertfordshire on 25 January 1997 at 17:18 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire at 17:18 on Saturday 25 January 1997. A 47-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 1997
- Saturday, 17:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84464, longitude 0.06896, in the SG10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100A0042
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1004
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 November 1995.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 16 November 1995
14 m awayRef 19954100A0513
Serious
Car crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 15 July 2024
52 m awayRef 2024411489495
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 4 July 1994
71 m awayRef 19944100A0257
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 17 July 2009
130 m awayRef 20094100A0429
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 17 March 2003
130 m awayRef 20034100A0269
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 31 October 1996
130 m awayRef 19964100A0466
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 150 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 19974100A0042 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 1997.