A120 crash in East Hertfordshire on 22 January 2015 at 19:20 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a car were involved in a crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire at 19:20 on Thursday 22 January 2015. The 50-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2015
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87657, longitude 0.13406, in the CM23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishop's Stortford North, East Hertfordshire, CM23 2UZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20154100A0037
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 120
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
- Frost or ice
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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2020.
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 2 November 2020
12 m awayRef 2020411006639
Slight
Ducati crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 3 June 1993
14 m awayRef 19934100A0257
Slight
Piaggio New Skipper crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 31 December 2004
20 m awayRef 20044100A1210
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 10 September 2016
20 m awayRef 2016410111784
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 26 October 2005
22 m awayRef 20054100A0878
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A120 in East Hertfordshire, 9 November 2001
22 m awayRef 20014100A1115
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, 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 20154100A0037 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 2015.