Unclassified road crash in Broxbourne WD18 on 4 December 2017 at 14:57 involving a Mercedes B Class
A Mercedes B Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Broxbourne at 14:57 on Monday 4 December 2017. A 92-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 4 Dec 2017
- Monday, 14:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes B Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65158, longitude -0.4224, in the WD18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holywell, Watford, WD18 8AW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410248666
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Watford, 16 December 1999
4 m awayRef 19994100C0745
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Watford, 19 June 2008
4 m awayRef 20084100C0632
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Watford, 29 April 1996
7 m awayRef 19964100C0242
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Watford, 15 September 2006
13 m awayRef 20064100C0970
Serious
Cagiva Mito crash on a C road in Watford, 17 May 2001
17 m awayRef 20014100C0245
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 1 October 2010
17 m awayRef 20104100C0916
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes B Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 92, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes B Class)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2017410248666 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 2017.