Serious C road crash in Hertsmere EN6 on 30 March 2012 at 21:10 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on a C road in Hertsmere at 21:10 on Friday 30 March 2012. The 42-year-old female driver and a 25-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Mar 2012
- Friday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70758, longitude -0.21836, in the EN6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hertsmere
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100B0192
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2012.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 28 December 2012
30 m awayRef 20124100J0750
Slight
Car crash on the B197 in Hertsmere, 26 January 1982
67 m awayRef 1982010SA0063
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 10 December 2008
71 m awayRef 20084100J2751
Slight
Car crash on the B197 in Hertsmere, 20 November 1983
90 m awayRef 1983010SA0784
Serious
Car crash on the A1(M) in Hertsmere, 3 November 1997
92 m awayRef 1997010SU0941
Fatal
Alfa Romeo 33 crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 29 March 1998
98 m awayRef 199801SA00180
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 20124100B0192 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 2012.