Serious A1170 crash in East Hertfordshire on 28 January 1997 at 17:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Kawasaki KH100 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire at 17:50 on Tuesday 28 January 1997. The 32-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki KH100 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jan 1997
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Kawasaki KH100
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81179, longitude -0.03424, in the SG12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ware.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100A0047
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1170
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2010.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 11 September 2010
At the same spotRef 20104100A0578
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 15 November 1994
At the same spotRef 19944100A0468
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 5 February 2003
At the same spotRef 20034100A0116
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 15 December 1999
At the same spotRef 19994100A0557
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 27 February 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100A0211
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 30 May 2025
8 m awayRef 2025411598588
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki KH100
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 99 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 32, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki KH100)
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 19974100A0047 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.