Unclassified road crash in Stevenage SG1 on 28 August 2004 at 14:00 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 and two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage at 14:00 on Saturday 28 August 2004. The 72-year-old female driver of the Mazda MX-5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2004
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mazda MX-5 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92553, longitude -0.16422, in the SG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Nicholas, Stevenage, SG1 4PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stevenage
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044100E0228
- Council area
- Stevenage
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 20044100E0228 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 2004.