A1250 crash in East Hertfordshire on 16 October 2017 at 23:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A1250 in East Hertfordshire at 23:00 on Monday 16 October 2017. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2017
- Monday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86987, longitude 0.1638, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410235040
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1250
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2018.
Slight
Smart Forfour crash on the A1250 in East Hertfordshire, 13 July 2018
6 m awayRef 2018410315281
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1059 in East Hertfordshire, 24 August 2001
17 m awayRef 20014100A0862
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A1059 in East Hertfordshire, 3 September 1994
17 m awayRef 19944100A0349
Slight
Mini One crash on the A1059 in East Hertfordshire, 31 January 2007
17 m awayRef 20074100A0091
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A1059 in East Hertfordshire, 27 July 2002
17 m awayRef 20024100A0741
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1250 in East Hertfordshire, 15 June 1994
17 m awayRef 19944100A0234
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2017410235040 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.