B653 crash in St Albans on 13 September 1993 at 14:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the B653 in St Albans at 14:00 on Monday 13 September 1993. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 1993
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8247, longitude -0.34059, in the AL5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harpenden.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19934100B1309
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 653
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1999.
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the B653 in St Albans, 20 November 1999
At the same spotRef 19994100F0770
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the B653 in St Albans, 20 July 2025
At the same spotRef 2025411619129
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B653 in St Albans, 9 August 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100F0307
Slight
Tesla Model Y crash on the B653 in St Albans, 28 March 2023
8 m awayRef 2023411295713
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B653 in St Albans, 17 April 2022
9 m awayRef 2022411175980
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B653 in St Albans, 4 October 2006
10 m awayRef 20064100F4867
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 19934100B1309 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the St Albans road accident statistics for 1993.