C road crash in Broxbourne EN8 on 26 December 2007 at 11:40 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Broxbourne at 11:40 on Wednesday 26 December 2007. The 18-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70579, longitude -0.04895, in the EN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheshunt. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cheshunt South and Theobalds, Broxbourne, EN8 9DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Broxbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100K0789
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Broxbourne, 21 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200001YF00159
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Broxbourne, 30 October 2003
At the same spotRef 20034100K0672
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Broxbourne, 28 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198801YF00162
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on a C road in Broxbourne, 27 September 2014
10 m awayRef 20144100K0491
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Broxbourne, 21 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198901YF00129
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Broxbourne, 23 May 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100K0307
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 20074100K0789 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 2007.