B1038 crash in East Hertfordshire on 12 December 2003 at 07:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire at 07:50 on Friday 12 December 2003. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2003
- Friday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94658, longitude -0.02047, in the SG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buntingford. 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100A1199
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1038
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2019.
Slight
Car crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 12 December 2019
2 m awayRef 2019410921481
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 25 June 2001
10 m awayRef 20014100A0620
Serious
BMW X5 crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 7 September 2010
10 m awayRef 20104100A0560
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the B138 in East Hertfordshire, 10 May 2018
24 m awayRef 2018410293825
Serious
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 23 February 2018
37 m awayRef 2018410275703
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 5 December 2025
41 m awayRef 2025411679502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 20034100A1199 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.