A120 crash in East Hertfordshire on 21 February 2013 at 21:37 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire at 21:37 on Thursday 21 February 2013. The 21-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2013
- Thursday, 21:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87803, longitude 0.13503, in the CM23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishop's Stortford North, East Hertfordshire, CM23 2UZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100A0104
- 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
- 120
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2002.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 18 May 2002
51 m awayRef 20024100A0491
Serious
Van crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 23 October 1983
60 m awayRef 19834141A2157
Fatal
Car crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 25 September 1987
60 m awayRef 19874141A2166
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 25 October 2001
67 m awayRef 20014100A1056
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 23 March 1997
95 m awayRef 19974100A0130
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 12 November 2004
104 m awayRef 20044100A1018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 20134100A0104 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 2013.