A1000 crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 24 December 1998 at 16:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Mercedes SLK Class were involved in a crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield at 16:50 on Thursday 24 December 1998. The 25-year-old female driver of the Mercedes SLK Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Mercedes SLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73379, longitude -0.18868, in the AL9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brookmans Park.
Map of where the crash happened in Welwyn Hatfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100B0440
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1000
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 1995.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 10 December 1995
36 m awayRef 19954100B0351
Slight
Yamaha XVS 650 crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 24 July 1998
45 m awayRef 19984100B0228
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 4 April 2001
45 m awayRef 20014100B0291
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 7 April 2016
51 m awayRef 2016410062584
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 24 December 1997
54 m awayRef 19974100B0468
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 18 September 2000
54 m awayRef 20004100B0632
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes SLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes SLK Class)
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 19984100B0440 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Welwyn Hatfield road accident statistics for 1998.