Serious B1383 crash in East Hertfordshire on 31 October 2014 at 20:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B1383 in East Hertfordshire at 20:05 on Friday 31 October 2014. The 52-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Oct 2014
- Friday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85835, longitude 0.16387, in the CM23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bishop's Stortford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishop's Stortford South, East Hertfordshire, CM23 3LR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20144100A0681
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1383
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2004.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B1383 in East Hertfordshire, 16 October 2004
At the same spotRef 20044100A0908
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1383 in East Hertfordshire, 18 May 2007
At the same spotRef 20074100A0351
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A1184 in East Hertfordshire, 19 October 2000
At the same spotRef 20004100A0843
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A1184 in East Hertfordshire, 22 February 2000
At the same spotRef 20004100A0083
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the B1383 in East Hertfordshire, 25 April 2005
At the same spotRef 20054100A0300
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B1383 in East Hertfordshire, 4 July 2014
At the same spotRef 20144100A0416
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 20144100A0681 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 2014.