C road crash in Hertsmere WD6 on 29 May 2012 at 12:36 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on a C road in Hertsmere at 12:36 on Tuesday 29 May 2012. The 33-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 2012
- Tuesday, 12:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65991, longitude -0.28428, in the WD6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Borehamwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Borehamwood Brookmeadow, Hertsmere, WD6 4UB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hertsmere
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100J0293
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1997.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 28 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199701SA00264
Serious
Alfa Romeo Series S3 crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 10 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199101SA00941
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 16 October 2005
At the same spotRef 20054100J2658
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 20 May 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010SA0330
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Hertsmere, 11 June 2005
At the same spotRef 20054100J2354
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 4 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199001SA00544
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
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 20124100J0293 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.