C road crash in St Albans AL2 on 14 January 1995 at 21:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in St Albans at 21:50 on Saturday 14 January 1995. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 1995
- Saturday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70732, longitude -0.35748, in the AL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bricket Wood.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954100F0022
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 July 2020.
Serious
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Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on a C road in St Albans, 26 December 2005
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 19954100F0022 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 1995.