Serious A10 crash in East Hertfordshire on 6 July 2003 at 11:25 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A10 in East Hertfordshire at 11:25 on Sunday 6 July 2003. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jul 2003
- Sunday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94673, longitude -0.02949, in the SG9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buntingford, East Hertfordshire, SG9 9DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100A0643
- 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
- 10
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 507
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 30 October 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 30 October 2015
5 m awayRef 20154100A0661
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 17 September 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100A0385
Slight
Scania crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 3 January 2007
10 m awayRef 20074100A0034
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 19 August 2010
14 m awayRef 20104100A0519
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 29 January 2012
14 m awayRef 20124100A0052
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 16 April 2022
18 m awayRef 2022411169613
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 20034100A0643 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.