Serious A1000 crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 4 November 2022 at 08:28 involving a Toyota Prius
A motorcycle and a Toyota Prius were involved in a crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield at 08:28 on Friday 4 November 2022. The 38-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Nov 2022
- Friday, 08:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80041, longitude -0.19946, in the AL7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Welwyn Garden City. It is one of the crashes that make up the Handside, Welwyn Hatfield, AL8 6BE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022411274332
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1000
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 2024.
Slight
Ford Mustang Mach-E crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 22 June 2024
1 m awayRef 2024411463490
Slight
Honda MTX125RW crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 10 November 1999
3 m awayRef 19994100B0338
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 4 June 2002
3 m awayRef 20024100B0484
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 25 November 2013
3 m awayRef 20134100B0633
Serious
Audi A5 crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 18 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025411647771
Serious
Saab 900 crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 21 November 1996
7 m awayRef 19964100B0343
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2022411274332 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 2022.