A119 crash in East Hertfordshire on 24 December 2012 at 10:35 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 crashed on the A119 in East Hertfordshire at 10:35 on Monday 24 December 2012. The 78-year-old male driver and a 78-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2012
- Monday, 10:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i10
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83764, longitude -0.09986, 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
- 20124100A0837
- 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
- 119
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 November 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 21 November 1985
41 m awayRef 19854141A1205
Slight
Car crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 16 August 1986
41 m awayRef 19864141A1150
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 30 September 2001
51 m awayRef 20014100A0974
Serious
Van crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 3 December 1986
61 m awayRef 19864141A1226
Slight
Car crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 30 April 1981
61 m awayRef 19814141A1062
Fatal
Renault 19 crash on the A119 in East Hertfordshire, 2 February 2001
71 m awayRef 20014100A0111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 20124100A0837 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.