Serious B1004 crash in East Hertfordshire on 20 October 2017 at 13:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire at 13:20 on Friday 20 October 2017. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Oct 2017
- Friday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87113, longitude 0.15754, 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 North, East Hertfordshire, CM23 3GP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410234995
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B1004 in North Hertfordshire, 23 May 2016
8 m awayRef 2016410079332
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 5 July 1998
8 m awayRef 19984100A0290
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 11 January 1999
20 m awayRef 19994100A0015
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 10 December 2003
25 m awayRef 20034100A1169
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 18 June 1993
29 m awayRef 19934100A0270
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the B1004 in East Hertfordshire, 18 October 1996
42 m awayRef 19964100A0446
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017410234995 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 2017.