Serious unclassified road crash in Hertsmere WD6 on 11 November 2019 at 15:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hertsmere at 15:30 on Monday 11 November 2019. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Nov 2019
- Monday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66341, longitude -0.27646, in the WD6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Borehamwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Borehamwood Brookmeadow, Hertsmere, WD6 1AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hertsmere
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019410897770
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 11 March 1985
9 m awayRef 198501SA00172
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 23 March 1997
9 m awayRef 199701SA00258
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 10 August 1985
19 m awayRef 198501SA00572
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 4 December 2024
23 m awayRef 2024411530782
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 22 September 2001
23 m awayRef 20014100J1721
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Hertsmere, 1 May 2006
27 m awayRef 20064100J2310
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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 2019410897770 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 2019.