A1081 crash in St Albans on 26 January 1994 at 11:10 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada and a Ford Capri were involved in a crash on the A1081 in St Albans at 11:10 on Wednesday 26 January 1994. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Capri was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1994
- Wednesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Granada and Ford Capri
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82801, longitude -0.37182, in the AL5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944100B1032
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1081
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 December 2000.
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 9 December 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100F0574
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 23 October 1992
14 m awayRef 19924100B1346
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 16 October 1996
14 m awayRef 19964100F0380
Slight
Gilera Stalker crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 28 September 2005
14 m awayRef 20054100F4872
Serious
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 8 February 2014
14 m awayRef 20144100F0083
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 13 October 2025
17 m awayRef 2025411668347
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,933 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Capri
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Capri)
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 19944100B1032 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 1994.