A602 crash in Stevenage on 28 November 2025 at 13:20 involving a Mercedes SL Class
A Mercedes SL Class and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A602 in Stevenage at 13:20 on Friday 28 November 2025. The 47-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra, a 35-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 22-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2025
- Friday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes SL Class and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89858, longitude -0.20255, in the SG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town, Stevenage, SG1 1LZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025411675437
- Council area
- Stevenage
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 602
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 197
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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2002.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 27 August 2002
2 m awayRef 20024100E0498
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 15 October 1997
2 m awayRef 19974100E0224
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 24 August 2002
8 m awayRef 20024100E0496
Slight
Car crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 2 November 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100E0246
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 20 July 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100E0355
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 24 November 1994
13 m awayRef 19944100E1211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes SL Class
Car
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,663 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025411675437 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 2025.