A119 crash in East Hertfordshire on 16 November 2009 at 09:35 involving a Seat Arosa
A Seat Arosa crashed on the A119 in East Hertfordshire at 09:35 on Monday 16 November 2009. The 82-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2009
- Monday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Arosa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83988, longitude -0.09904, in the SG14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20094100A0731
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 119
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 10 January 2020
8 m awayRef 2020410926372
Serious
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 26 May 2025
16 m awayRef 2025411601473
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 31 October 2011
82 m awayRef 20114100A0608
Serious
Case IH crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 9 May 1992
108 m awayRef 19924141A0154
Slight
Car crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 28 July 1980
125 m awayRef 19804141A1130
Slight
MG Montego crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 11 June 1998
175 m awayRef 19984100A0242
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Arosa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Arosa)
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 20094100A0731 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 2009.