A414 crash in East Hertfordshire on 7 December 2011 at 11:08 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire at 11:08 on Wednesday 7 December 2011. The 51-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 11:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79594, longitude -0.08465, in the SG14 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
- 20114100A0736
- 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
- 414
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2003.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 23 April 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100A0391
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 24 November 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100A0510
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 24 October 2025
11 m awayRef 2025411683166
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 21 September 1999
14 m awayRef 19994100A0391
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 14 June 2004
20 m awayRef 20044100A0524
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 2 February 2001
20 m awayRef 20014100A0118
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 20114100A0736 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.