Serious unclassified road crash in Stevenage SG2 on 3 April 2003 at 20:58 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Stevenage at 20:58 on Thursday 3 April 2003. A 45-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and a 49-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Apr 2003
- Thursday, 20:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89667, longitude -0.17048, in the SG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shephall, Stevenage, SG2 9TY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100E0157
- Council area
- Stevenage
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 1997.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 7 January 1997
14 m awayRef 19974100E0010
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 9 September 2000
22 m awayRef 20004100E0195
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 5 July 1999
28 m awayRef 19994100E0126
Serious
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 30 March 2000
36 m awayRef 20004100E0074
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 28 May 1993
36 m awayRef 19934100E1069
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 2 June 1999
42 m awayRef 19994100E0092
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- 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 20034100E0157 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 2003.