A1001 crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 19 February 2001 at 09:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A1001 in Welwyn Hatfield at 09:00 on Monday 19 February 2001. The 23-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2001
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76047, longitude -0.24323, in the AL10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hatfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hatfield South West, Welwyn Hatfield, AL10 9TB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20014100B0157
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1001
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1057
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2016.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1001 in Welwyn Hatfield, 12 January 2016
2 m awayRef 20164100B0146
Slight
Honda crash on the A1001 in Welwyn Hatfield, 16 February 2024
5 m awayRef 2024411411664
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A1001 in Welwyn Hatfield, 24 December 2019
5 m awayRef 2019410920934
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A1001 in Welwyn Hatfield, 4 April 2022
9 m awayRef 2022411187750
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A1001 in Welwyn Hatfield, 26 November 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100B0363
Slight
Car crash on the A1001 in Welwyn Hatfield, 10 August 2014
10 m awayRef 20144100B0494
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 20014100B0157 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 2001.