Serious B157 crash in Welwyn Hatfield on 2 August 2009 at 08:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B157 in Welwyn Hatfield at 08:40 on Sunday 2 August 2009. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Aug 2009
- Sunday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71568, longitude -0.13191, in the EN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cuffley.
Map of where the crash happened in Welwyn Hatfield
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20094100B0134
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 157
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 1994.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A157 in Broxbourne, 27 December 1994
36 m awayRef 199401YC00238
Slight
Talbot Avenger crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 18 October 1990
50 m awayRef 199001YF00729
Slight
Opel crash on the B157 in Welwyn Hatfield, 18 May 2007
64 m awayRef 20074100B0356
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B157 in Welwyn Hatfield, 12 September 2008
72 m awayRef 20084100B0586
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in Broxbourne, 17 June 1992
78 m awayRef 199201YF00353
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B157 in Welwyn Hatfield, 22 September 2025
80 m awayRef 2025411660245
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 20094100B0134 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 2009.