Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP2 on 2 February 1995 at 08:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Granada were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 08:50 on Thursday 2 February 1995. The 49-year-old male driver of the Ford Granada was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 1995
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75878, longitude -0.46617, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954100D0092
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- B
- Second road number
- 487
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 April 2006.
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 1 April 2006
10 m awayRef 20064100D0284
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 19 February 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100D0063
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 14 February 2017
11 m awayRef 2017410158009
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 2 February 2023
11 m awayRef 2023411273491
Slight
Proton Persona crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 8 February 1996
14 m awayRef 19964100D0055
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 1 April 1993
14 m awayRef 19934100D0125
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Granada)
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 19954100D0092 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 1995.