C road crash in East Hertfordshire SG9 on 10 June 1998 at 19:07 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Vauxhall Calibra were involved in a crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire at 19:07 on Wednesday 10 June 1998. The 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Calibra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 1998
- Wednesday, 19:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Vauxhall Calibra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95573, longitude -0.01122, in the SG9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100A0252
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 23 December 1986
64 m awayRef 19864141A2221
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 24 October 2000
188 m awayRef 20004100A0881
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 11 December 2025
200 m awayRef 2025411692955
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 19 August 2005
535 m awayRef 20054100A0666
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 7 April 1988
600 m awayRef 19884141A2056
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 11 August 1979
600 m awayRef 19794141A2112
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Calibra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Calibra)
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 19984100A0252 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 1998.