A4145 crash in Watford on 5 July 2012 at 15:05 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64906, longitude -0.41407, in the WD18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vicarage, Watford, WD18 0LJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100C0577
- Council area
- Watford
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4145
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 1993.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4145 in Watford, 1 August 1993
At the same spotRef 19934100C0371
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A4145 in Watford, 27 April 1993
10 m awayRef 19934100C0199
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 7 July 2008
10 m awayRef 20084100C0710
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4145 in Watford, 19 January 2012
10 m awayRef 20124100C0056
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A4145 in Watford, 3 April 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100C0159
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 28 November 2008
10 m awayRef 20084100C1280
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 20124100C0577 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Watford road accident statistics for 2012.