A505 crash in North Hertfordshire on 18 February 1998 at 17:50 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A505 in North Hertfordshire at 17:50 on Wednesday 18 February 1998. The 34-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 1998
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95394, longitude -0.26816, in the SG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hitchin.
Map of where the crash happened in North Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100G0063
- Council area
- North Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 505
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2005.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A505 in North Hertfordshire, 20 July 2005
At the same spotRef 20054100G0511
Slight
Car crash on the A505 in North Hertfordshire, 5 March 2007
At the same spotRef 20074100G0183
Serious
Audi Q3 crash on the A505 in North Hertfordshire, 11 May 2024
9 m awayRef 2024411448925
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A6132 in North Hertfordshire, 1 February 1980
10 m awayRef 19804141E2031
Slight
Car crash on the A505 in North Hertfordshire, 16 March 1990
10 m awayRef 19904141E0151
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A505 in North Hertfordshire, 18 April 2004
10 m awayRef 20044100G0292
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 34, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 19984100G0063 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 1998.