B1004 crash in East Hertfordshire on 16 November 2015 at 11:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford S-Max were involved in a crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire at 11:00 on Monday 16 November 2015. An 82-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus and the 37-year-old female driver of the Ford S-Max were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2015
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81004, longitude -0.02177, in the SG12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ware. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ware Priory, East Hertfordshire, SG12 9BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20154100A0686
- 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
- 1004
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2008.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 20 March 2008
5 m awayRef 20084100A0249
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 15 October 2002
5 m awayRef 20024100A1051
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 13 November 1993
9 m awayRef 19934100A0519
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 11 November 1996
17 m awayRef 19964100A0482
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 21 May 1994
23 m awayRef 19944100A0198
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 11 June 1997
23 m awayRef 19974100A0260
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford S-Max)
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 20154100A0686 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.