C road crash in Welwyn Hatfield EN7 on 26 May 2010 at 19:11 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a van were involved in a crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield at 19:11 on Wednesday 26 May 2010. The 49-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2010
- Wednesday, 19:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72547, longitude -0.10848, in the EN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20104100B0297
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2019.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 27 July 2019
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Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 22 August 2001
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Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 27 August 2014
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Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Broxbourne, 7 July 1997
41 m awayRef 199701YF00465
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 25 November 2025
46 m awayRef 2025411677372
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 25 March 1997
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 49, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 20104100B0297 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 2010.