B656 crash in North Hertfordshire on 7 April 2007 at 14:10 involving a Peugeot 406 taxi
A car and a Peugeot 406 taxi were involved in a crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire at 14:10 on Saturday 7 April 2007. The 36-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2007
- Saturday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83854, longitude -0.2206, in the AL6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100B0255
- Council area
- North Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 656
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 2020.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B656 in Welwyn Hatfield, 25 December 2020
25 m awayRef 2020411011924
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B656 in Welwyn Hatfield, 17 March 1997
50 m awayRef 19974100B0095
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire, 31 July 1988
51 m awayRef 19884141B2111
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire, 5 July 1989
51 m awayRef 19894141B2107
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the B656 in Welwyn Hatfield, 25 June 2010
54 m awayRef 20104100B0360
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B656 in North Hertfordshire, 13 September 2017
62 m awayRef 2017410224691
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 406
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 20074100B0255 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 2007.