Unclassified road crash in Hertsmere WD7 on 16 October 1998 at 08:35 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina and a Volvo 460 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere at 08:35 on Friday 16 October 1998. The 43-year-old female driver of the Toyota Carina 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
- 16 Oct 1998
- Friday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Volvo 460
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68186, longitude -0.31241, in the WD7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801SA00689
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- 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
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
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 460
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
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 199801SA00689 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 1998.