A412 crash in Watford on 10 October 2013 at 20:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A van and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A412 in Watford at 20:30 on Thursday 10 October 2013. The 26-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2013
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66308, longitude -0.40042, in the WD17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Watford, WD17 1BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Watford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100C1143
- Council area
- Watford
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 412
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 6 November 2009.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A412 in Watford, 6 November 2009
At the same spotRef 20094100C1066
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A412 in Watford, 1 May 2008
10 m awayRef 20084100C0462
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A412 in Watford, 25 April 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100C0479
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A412 in Watford, 2 September 1995
14 m awayRef 19954100C0534
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A412 in Watford, 6 October 1995
20 m awayRef 19954100C0614
Slight
MG Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 5 September 1995
22 m awayRef 19954100C0535
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 20134100C1143 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 2013.