C road crash in St Albans AL2 on 29 September 1994 at 14:55 involving a Mercedes 200 van
A car and a Mercedes 200 van were involved in a crash on a C road in St Albans at 14:55 on Thursday 29 September 1994. The 68-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 1994
- Thursday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes 200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73615, longitude -0.38077, in the AL2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944100B1327
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 4 December 1987.
Serious
Lorry crash on a C road in St Albans, 4 December 1987
10 m awayRef 19874141B1293
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in St Albans, 21 December 2002
61 m awayRef 20024100F5397
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 12 October 2022
79 m awayRef 2022411237311
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in St Albans, 26 June 2006
95 m awayRef 20064100F4535
Slight
Car crash on the M1 in St Albans, 23 May 1986
100 m awayRef 19864141T1061
Serious
MG Montego crash on a C road in St Albans, 9 May 1994
108 m awayRef 19944100B1149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes 200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 19944100B1327 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.