A411 crash in Watford on 28 August 2011 at 15:30 involving a Mercedes Viano
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2011
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes Viano
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65155, longitude -0.38536, in the WD17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oxhey, Watford, WD18 0HZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100C0843
- Council area
- Watford
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 411
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 411
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2022.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A411 in Watford, 21 January 2022
3 m awayRef 2022411139827
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A411 in Watford, 27 June 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100C0406
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A411 in Watford, 19 January 2007
10 m awayRef 20074100C0056
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A411 in Watford, 20 September 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100C0545
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A411 in Broxbourne, 1 December 2017
11 m awayRef 2017410248863
Slight
Honda CR-V crash on the A411 in Watford, 31 August 2025
14 m awayRef 2025411635763
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Viano
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Viano)
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 20114100C0843 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Watford road accident statistics for 2011.