B1368 crash in East Hertfordshire on 26 April 1997 at 11:15 involving a Subaru 284 van
A Subaru 284 van and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on the B1368 in East Hertfordshire at 11:15 on Saturday 26 April 1997. The 20-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 1997
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru 284 and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8946, longitude 0.01399, in the SG11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100A0176
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1368
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 1995.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B1368 in East Hertfordshire, 3 July 1995
At the same spotRef 19954100A0273
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B1368 in East Hertfordshire, 4 June 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100A0223
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B1368 in East Hertfordshire, 31 December 2005
10 m awayRef 20054100A1047
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1368 in East Hertfordshire, 9 July 1993
10 m awayRef 19934100A0299
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B1368 in East Hertfordshire, 16 August 1993
10 m awayRef 19934100A0372
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the B1368 in East Hertfordshire, 11 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025411601596
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru 284
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 19974100A0176 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.