A1000 crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 1 November 2006 at 07:40 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Frontera were involved in a crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield at 07:40 on Wednesday 1 November 2006. The 50-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Frontera and a 60-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Frontera were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2006
- Wednesday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Frontera
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73575, longitude -0.19611, in the AL9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Welham Green and Hatfield South, Welwyn Hatfield, AL9 6DA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20064100B0830
- 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
- 1000
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2013.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 5 November 2013
At the same spotRef 20134100B0570
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 18 December 2002
At the same spotRef 20024100B1122
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 18 November 1997
At the same spotRef 19974100B0406
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 24 October 1997
At the same spotRef 19974100B0362
Slight
Honda CB crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 21 March 2025
1 m awayRef 2025411577792
Serious
Smart Fortwo crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 24 August 2018
6 m awayRef 2018410326777
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,165 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Frontera)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Frontera)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 20064100B0830 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 2006.