A1170 crash in Broxbourne on 1 December 2011 at 17:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A1170 in Broxbourne at 17:15 on Thursday 1 December 2011. A 42-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7585, longitude -0.01219, in the EN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hoddesdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoddesdon Town and Rye Park, Broxbourne, EN11 8HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Broxbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100K0562
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1170
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2003.
Slight
MCW crash on the A1170 in Broxbourne, 13 February 2003
At the same spotRef 20034100K0138
Slight
Renault Safrane crash on the A1170 in Broxbourne, 11 October 1998
At the same spotRef 19984100A0438
Serious
Car crash on the A1170 in Broxbourne, 30 May 2011
At the same spotRef 20114100K0272
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A1170 in Broxbourne, 28 February 1995
At the same spotRef 19954100A0080
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A1170 in Broxbourne, 26 June 2008
At the same spotRef 20084100K0353
Serious
Leyland crash on the A1170 in Broxbourne, 31 July 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100A0331
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 20114100K0562 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 2011.