Unclassified road crash in Broxbourne AL4 on 15 November 2017 at 15:45 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Broxbourne at 15:45 on Wednesday 15 November 2017. The 12-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2017
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77802, longitude -0.29791, in the AL4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marshalswick East & Jersey Farm, St Albans, AL4 9JX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410247986
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- 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
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in St Albans, 7 March 1997
11 m awayRef 19974100F0210
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 16 August 2025
43 m awayRef 2025411630359
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on a C road in St Albans, 27 January 2001
56 m awayRef 20014100F0045
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on a C road in St Albans, 27 January 2000
67 m awayRef 20004100F0054
Slight
Car crash on a C road in St Albans, 18 November 1985
89 m awayRef 19854141B1311
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in St Albans, 25 June 2002
111 m awayRef 20024100F4667
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017410247986 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 2017.