A414 crash in East Hertfordshire on 2 February 2001 at 08:25 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Mercedes 400 minibus were involved in a crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire at 08:25 on Friday 2 February 2001. The 23-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2001
- Friday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Mercedes 400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79594, longitude -0.08436, in the SG14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hertford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hertford Castle, East Hertfordshire, SG14 1DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20014100A0118
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2003.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 23 April 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100A0391
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 24 November 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100A0510
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 7 January 2022
12 m awayRef 2022411131030
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 9 December 2000
14 m awayRef 20004100A1049
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 18 December 2001
14 m awayRef 20014100A1313
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 5 September 1996
20 m awayRef 19964100A0374
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes 400
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 20014100A0118 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 2001.