C road crash in Welwyn Hatfield EN6 on 20 April 2013 at 13:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield at 13:00 on Saturday 20 April 2013. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2013
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69216, longitude -0.12897, in the EN6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northaw and Cuffley, Welwyn Hatfield, EN2 8AU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100B0167
- Council area
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 26 November 1997.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 26 November 1997
14 m awayRef 199701YF00814
Slight
Fiat Ulysse crash on a C road in Welwyn Hatfield, 20 November 2011
28 m awayRef 20114100B0630
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Enfield, 20 November 1988
32 m awayRef 198801YF00832
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Enfield, 14 November 1983
85 m awayRef 1983010YF0802
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 22 August 1993
120 m awayRef 199301YF00440
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Enfield, 28 March 1992
130 m awayRef 199201YF00170
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 20134100B0167 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Welwyn Hatfield road accident statistics for 2013.