Unclassified road crash in Stevenage SG2 on 3 January 2016 at 18:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage at 18:00 on Sunday 3 January 2016. A 7-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira and a 5-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87413, longitude -0.15811, in the SG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longmeadow, Stevenage, SG2 8UL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20164100E0023
- Council area
- Stevenage
- 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
- 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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2024.
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 17 June 2024
15 m awayRef 2024411471129
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Rover 400 Series crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 29 September 2003
16 m awayRef 20034100E0509
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 7 December 2004
16 m awayRef 20044100E0668
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Kia Pride crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 23 February 1999
16 m awayRef 19994100E0034
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 31 January 2012
16 m awayRef 20124100E0039
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A602 in East Hertfordshire, 17 December 2004
16 m awayRef 20044100A1156
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 20164100E0023 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 2016.