Serious A1170 crash in East Hertfordshire on 15 December 1999 at 22:40 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire at 22:40 on Wednesday 15 December 1999. The 19-year-old male 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
- 15 Dec 1999
- Wednesday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81174, longitude -0.03422, in the SG12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ware.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19994100A0557
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1170
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2010.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 11 September 2010
At the same spotRef 20104100A0578
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 15 November 1994
At the same spotRef 19944100A0468
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 5 February 2003
At the same spotRef 20034100A0116
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 28 January 1997
At the same spotRef 19974100A0047
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 27 February 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100A0211
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 30 May 2025
8 m awayRef 2025411598588
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 19994100A0557 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 1999.