C road crash in Watford WD17 on 27 April 1999 at 15:30 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Watford at 15:30 on Tuesday 27 April 1999. A 57-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 1999
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65809, longitude -0.39698, in the WD17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford.
Map of where the crash happened in Watford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19994100C0240
- Council area
- Watford
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 7 October 1992.
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,489 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 19994100C0240 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Watford road accident statistics for 1999.