Serious B1502 crash in East Hertfordshire on 4 October 2008 at 15:35 involving a Honda
A Honda and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B1502 in East Hertfordshire at 15:35 on Saturday 4 October 2008. The 13-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Oct 2008
- Saturday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78884, longitude -0.02521, in the SG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20084100A0675
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1502
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1502 in East Hertfordshire, 18 August 2004
10 m awayRef 20044100A0743
Slight
BMW crash on the B1502 in East Hertfordshire, 18 October 1997
10 m awayRef 19974100A0467
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1502 in East Hertfordshire, 23 September 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100A0403
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1502 in East Hertfordshire, 14 October 2004
14 m awayRef 20044100E0557
Fatal
Nissan Sunny crash on the B1502 in East Hertfordshire, 5 August 2005
14 m awayRef 20054100A0565
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1502 in East Hertfordshire, 17 May 1994
20 m awayRef 19944100A0195
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 20084100A0675 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 2008.