A1170 crash in East Hertfordshire on 12 November 2003 at 23:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire at 23:10 on Wednesday 12 November 2003. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2003
- Wednesday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81137, longitude -0.03365, in the SG12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ware. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ware Priory, East Hertfordshire, SG12 9BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100A1074
- 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
- 1170
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2006.
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 6 November 2006
At the same spotRef 20064100A0883
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 23 November 1995
At the same spotRef 19954100A0524
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 7 April 2025
6 m awayRef 2025411577680
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 22 September 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100A0515
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 26 August 2008
10 m awayRef 20084100A0579
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A1170 in East Hertfordshire, 19 January 1993
10 m awayRef 19934100A0032
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 20034100A1074 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.