A1010 crash in Enfield on 1 January 1998 at 18:15 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro and a Fiat Uno were involved in a crash on the A1010 in Enfield at 18:15 on Thursday 1 January 1998. The 33-year-old female driver of the Rover Metro and a male passenger in the Rover Metro were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 1998
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Metro and Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62188, longitude -0.06168, in the N9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Enfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801YE00004
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1010
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2014.
Slight
Wrightbus Gemini crash on the A1010 in Enfield, 29 May 2014
At the same spotRef 201401YE80346
Slight
Car crash on the A1010 in Enfield, 21 November 2015
At the same spotRef 201501YE80850
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the A1010 in Enfield, 20 August 2021
1 m awayRef 2021010325542
Slight
Volvo crash on the A1010 in Enfield, 5 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010613672
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A1010 in Enfield, 7 September 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010464945
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1010 in Enfield, 23 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198601YE00619
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 903 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
- 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 199801YE00004 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 1998.