Unclassified road crash in Welwyn Hatfield AL9 on 10 March 2017 at 18:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield at 18:00 on Friday 10 March 2017. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2017
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73476, longitude -0.21813, in the AL9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Welham Green. It is one of the crashes that make up the Welham Green and Hatfield South, Welwyn Hatfield, AL9 7DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Welwyn Hatfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410170824
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 8 April 1996
12 m awayRef 19964100B0113
Slight
Jaguar XK Series crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 16 February 2010
19 m awayRef 20104100B0101
Serious
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 7 September 1993
22 m awayRef 19934100B2216
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 12 June 2002
23 m awayRef 20024100B0505
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 12 October 2002
26 m awayRef 20024100B0883
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 2 April 2022
37 m awayRef 2022411163189
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2017410170824 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 2017.