B197 crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 1 July 2008 at 19:07 involving a car
A car crashed on the B197 in Welwyn Hatfield at 19:07 on Tuesday 1 July 2008. The 17-year-old male driver and a 15-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2008
- Tuesday, 19:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84569, longitude -0.18852, in the AL6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woolmer Green. It is one of the crashes that make up the Welwyn East, Welwyn Hatfield, AL6 0TP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20084100B0475
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 197
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 1994.
Slight
Honda crash on the B197 in Welwyn Hatfield, 11 January 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100B2017
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 3 June 1984
20 m awayRef 19844141B1090
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B197 in Welwyn Hatfield, 1 July 2008
20 m awayRef 20084100B0467
Slight
Car crash on the B197 in Welwyn Hatfield, 20 August 1981
20 m awayRef 19814141B1130
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B197 in Welwyn Hatfield, 10 April 1995
22 m awayRef 19954100B0093
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B197 in Welwyn Hatfield, 8 January 2003
22 m awayRef 20034100B0024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 20084100B0475 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 2008.