B156 crash in Broxbourne on 8 March 2013 at 02:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B156 in Broxbourne at 02:15 on Friday 8 March 2013. The 24-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 2013
- Friday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71677, longitude -0.03892, in the EN8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cheshunt North, Broxbourne, EN8 0PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Broxbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100K0113
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 156
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 17 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401YF00189
Slight
Car crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 14 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198401YF00112
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Broxbourne, 18 January 1985
10 m awayRef 198501YF00039
Slight
Car crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 11 June 1986
14 m awayRef 198601YF00374
Serious
Car crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 27 June 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010YF0450
Slight
Car crash on the B156 in Broxbourne, 30 July 1986
20 m awayRef 198601YF00506
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,696 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 20134100K0113 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 2013.