Serious unclassified road crash in Enfield N14 on 26 November 1998 at 05:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Enfield at 05:00 on Thursday 26 November 1998. The 17-year-old female driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 1998
- Thursday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62852, longitude -0.12742, in the N14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801YE00730
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1004
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A1004 in Enfield, 28 May 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010YE0289
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the A1004 in Enfield, 29 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701YE00840
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A1004 in Enfield, 21 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601YE00467
Slight
Car crash on the A1004 in Enfield, 23 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198401YE00643
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A1004 in Enfield, 29 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010606376
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the A1004 in Enfield, 28 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199701YE00068
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199801YE00730 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.