B180 crash in East Hertfordshire on 23 March 2012 at 21:30 involving a Renault Megane
A car and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire at 21:30 on Friday 23 March 2012. The 63-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2012
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80868, longitude 0.05573, in the SG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100A0151
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 180
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 October 2016.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 15 October 2016
14 m awayRef 2016410122770
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 15 August 1997
32 m awayRef 19974100A0389
Serious
Car crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 15 February 1980
36 m awayRef 19804141A1033
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 1 April 1998
63 m awayRef 19984100A0136
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 15 March 1991
73 m awayRef 19914141A0085
Slight
Car crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 22 August 1987
73 m awayRef 19874141A1129
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
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 20124100A0151 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 2012.