A414 crash in East Hertfordshire on 5 October 2012 at 22:20 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A414 in East Hertfordshire at 22:20 on Friday 5 October 2012. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2012
- Friday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7915, longitude -0.14444, in the SG14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100A0628
- 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
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 106 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2009.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 21 April 2009
106 m awayRef 20094100A0258
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 3 September 2010
141 m awayRef 20104100A0605
Serious
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 21 October 2005
142 m awayRef 20054100A0899
Serious
Scania crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 29 October 2013
163 m awayRef 20134100A0644
Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 7 August 1996
177 m awayRef 19964100A0334
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 7 December 2008
187 m awayRef 20084100A0829
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 20124100A0628 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.