A41 crash in Dacorum on 9 December 1983 at 17:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A41 in Dacorum at 17:40 on Friday 9 December 1983. The 54-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 1983
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75731, longitude -0.55548, in the HP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Berkhamsted.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19834141D2120
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2010.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 30 September 2010
14 m awayRef 20104100D0721
Slight
Vauxhall crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 23 November 2003
14 m awayRef 20034100D1196
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 10 May 2014
22 m awayRef 20144100D0297
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 26 July 2000
28 m awayRef 20004100D0339
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 23 July 2000
28 m awayRef 20004100D0323
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 8 February 1993
28 m awayRef 19934100D0048
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 19834141D2120 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dacorum road accident statistics for 1983.