Serious B1000 crash in East Hertfordshire on 21 October 2004 at 18:20 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B1000 in East Hertfordshire at 18:20 on Thursday 21 October 2004. The 12-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 2004
- Thursday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79875, longitude -0.09729, in the SG14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hertford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hertford Sele, East Hertfordshire, SG14 2DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044100A0957
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1000
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2015.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B1000 in East Hertfordshire, 2 December 2015
8 m awayRef 20154100A0701
Slight
Leyland crash on the B1000 in East Hertfordshire, 10 April 1995
10 m awayRef 19954100A0150
Slight
Car crash on the B1000 in East Hertfordshire, 21 April 1996
22 m awayRef 19964100A0150
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B1000 in East Hertfordshire, 6 April 2025
33 m awayRef 2025411580998
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the B1000 in East Hertfordshire, 28 August 2001
40 m awayRef 20014100A0794
Serious
Bedford Astra crash on the B1000 in East Hertfordshire, 3 July 1990
40 m awayRef 19904141A0318
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 12, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 20044100A0957 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 2004.