C road crash in Welwyn Hatfield AL9 on 20 March 2009 at 08:00 involving a Mazda 6
A car and a Mazda 6 were involved in a crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield at 08:00 on Friday 20 March 2009. The 49-year-old male driver of the Mazda 6 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2009
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73773, longitude -0.2082, in the AL9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Welham Green and Hatfield South, Welwyn Hatfield, AL9 7HZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20094100B0210
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1000
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2004.
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 55 crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 14 October 2004
10 m awayRef 20044100B0864
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 28 July 2001
10 m awayRef 20014100B0584
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 18 May 2001
10 m awayRef 20014100B0409
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 8 June 2009
10 m awayRef 20094100B9052
Slight
Suzuki Samurai crash on the A1000 in Welwyn Hatfield, 29 April 1998
14 m awayRef 19984100B0118
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Welwyn Hatfield, 18 March 2022
16 m awayRef 2022411199783
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 6)
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 20094100B0210 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.