A602 crash in East Hertfordshire on 13 June 2003 at 13:40 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire at 13:40 on Friday 13 June 2003. A 25-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 2003
- Friday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87067, longitude -0.14685, in the SG14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longmeadow, Stevenage, SG2 8UL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100A0574
- 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
- 602
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 2024.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 1 May 2024
5 m awayRef 2024411441069
Slight
Suzuki TL 1000 crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 21 June 2015
8 m awayRef 20154100A0370
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 8 September 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100A0856
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 13 October 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100A0982
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 2 March 1998
10 m awayRef 19984100A0105
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 5 October 2024
11 m awayRef 2024411503445
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 20034100A0574 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 2003.