Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP4 on 11 October 1997 at 16:50 involving a Renault 21
A Renault 21 and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 16:50 on Saturday 11 October 1997. The 27-year-old female 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
- 11 Oct 1997
- Saturday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault 21 and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76018, longitude -0.57016, in the HP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Berkhamsted.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100D0421
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 11 October 1997
14 m awayRef 19974100D0419
Serious
Audi A7 crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 20 October 2016
60 m awayRef 2016410121872
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 24 May 1983
80 m awayRef 19834141D2043
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 25 April 1980
80 m awayRef 19804141D2035
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 13 October 2012
85 m awayRef 20124100D0645
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 27 September 2023
87 m awayRef 2023411358599
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault 21
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 19974100D0421 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 1997.