Unclassified road crash in Hertsmere WD6 on 29 January 2014 at 19:30 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere at 19:30 on Wednesday 29 January 2014. The 45-year-old female driver of the Toyota RAV4 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2014
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota RAV4 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65314, longitude -0.27023, in the WD6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Borehamwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Borehamwood Brookmeadow, Hertsmere, WD6 1AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hertsmere
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20144100J0068
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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 serious injury crash on 8 April 1998.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 8 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801SA00217
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 29 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199801SA00644
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Barnet, 10 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199501SA00781
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 13 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199501SA00709
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 25 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199301SA00560
Serious
Lexus IS200 crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 24 December 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100J2057
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
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 20144100J0068 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 2014.