A119 crash in East Hertfordshire on 21 September 2011 at 16:30 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class hit a pedestrian on the A119 in East Hertfordshire at 16:30 on Wednesday 21 September 2011. A 20-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2011
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79778, longitude -0.07065, in the SG13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hertford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hertford Castle, East Hertfordshire, SG14 1DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100A0541
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2021.
Slight
Car crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 26 April 2021
5 m awayRef 2021411052136
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 25 October 1997
10 m awayRef 19974100A0478
Fatal
Ford crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 24 January 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100A0047
Slight
Car crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 17 November 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100A1151
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 27 February 2017
12 m awayRef 2017410161914
Slight
Fiat Stilo crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 2 September 2004
22 m awayRef 20044100A0753
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 20114100A0541 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 2011.