A4140 crash in Hertsmere on 6 September 2013 at 15:30 involving a Rover 400 Series
A car and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on the A4140 in Hertsmere at 15:30 on Friday 6 September 2013. An 86-year-old female passenger in the car and the 41-year-old male driver of the Rover 400 Series were 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
- 6 Sep 2013
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63366, longitude -0.34091, in the WD23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bushey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bushey Heath, Hertsmere, WD23 1NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hertsmere
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100J0484
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4140
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 16 October 1994
At the same spotRef 199401SA00810
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4140 in Hertsmere, 15 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198501SA00665
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4140 in Hertsmere, 9 December 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100J2926
Serious
Car crash on the A4140 in Hertsmere, 21 May 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010SA0335
Slight
Car crash on the A4140 in Hertsmere, 14 February 1986
10 m awayRef 198601SA00138
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4140 in Hertsmere, 29 August 2004
10 m awayRef 20044100J2673
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 400 Series)
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 20134100J0484 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 2013.