A6129 crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 1 September 2007 at 21:45 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on the A6129 in Welwyn Hatfield at 21:45 on Saturday 1 September 2007. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2007
- Saturday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78682, longitude -0.21974, in the AL8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100B0589
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6129
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 1992.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A6129 in Welwyn Hatfield, 12 April 1992
10 m awayRef 19924141B2084
Serious
Car crash on the A6129 in Welwyn Hatfield, 21 July 1988
10 m awayRef 19884141B2104
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6129 in Welwyn Hatfield, 9 June 1981
10 m awayRef 19814141B1081
Slight
Car crash on the A6129 in Welwyn Hatfield, 27 August 1980
10 m awayRef 19804141B1135
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A6129 in Welwyn Hatfield, 26 March 2001
36 m awayRef 20014100B0278
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6129 in Welwyn Hatfield, 12 August 2000
36 m awayRef 20004100B0517
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 20074100B0589 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Welwyn Hatfield road accident statistics for 2007.