B158 crash in East Hertfordshire on 13 February 2007 at 17:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A lorry and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the B158 in East Hertfordshire at 17:30 on Tuesday 13 February 2007. The 70-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 2007
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78724, longitude -0.08603, in the SG13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hertford.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100A0135
- 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
- 158
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 April 2007.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B158 in East Hertfordshire, 10 April 2007
At the same spotRef 20074100A0309
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B158 in East Hertfordshire, 26 August 1998
At the same spotRef 19984100A0356
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B158 in East Hertfordshire, 27 March 1995
20 m awayRef 19954100A0131
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B158 in East Hertfordshire, 20 May 1993
51 m awayRef 19934100A0223
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the B158 in East Hertfordshire, 13 August 1999
54 m awayRef 19994100A0328
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B158 in East Hertfordshire, 22 October 2004
63 m awayRef 20044100A0936
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 20074100A0135 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 2007.