Unclassified road crash in Stevenage SG1 on 24 July 2012 at 17:25 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Seat Ibiza were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage at 17:25 on Tuesday 24 July 2012. The 35-year-old female driver of the Seat Ibiza was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9075, longitude -0.20784, in the SG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town, Stevenage, SG1 1LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stevenage
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100E0350
- Council area
- Stevenage
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 602
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 21 September 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100E0173
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 19 July 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100E0127
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 4 September 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100E0168
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 10 March 1995
At the same spotRef 19954100E0051
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 12 February 2012
At the same spotRef 20124100E0056
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 15 May 2012
At the same spotRef 20124100E0239
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ibiza)
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 20124100E0350 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 2012.