A5183 crash in Hertsmere on 19 December 2013 at 12:01 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Hyundai Getz were involved in a crash on the A5183 in Hertsmere at 12:01 on Thursday 19 December 2013. The 53-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 12:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64724, longitude -0.29719, in the WD6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Elstree. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elstree, Hertsmere, WD6 3EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hertsmere
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100J0702
- 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
- 5183
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
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, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 23 November 1990.
Fatal
Leyland crash on the A5183 in Hertsmere, 23 November 1990
At the same spotRef 199001SA00984
Serious
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A5183 in Hertsmere, 24 July 2020
12 m awayRef 2020410974476
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5183 in Hertsmere, 8 December 1994
20 m awayRef 199401SA01039
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5183 in Hertsmere, 25 June 1982
20 m awayRef 1982010SA0428
Serious
Car crash on the A5183 in Hertsmere, 23 May 1990
20 m awayRef 199001SA00438
Slight
Car crash on the A5183 in Hertsmere, 19 November 1982
30 m awayRef 1982010SA0892
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 20134100J0702 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.