C road crash in Dacorum HP1 on 24 February 1998 at 08:58 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender crashed on a C road in Dacorum at 08:58 on Tuesday 24 February 1998. The 39-year-old female driver 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
- 24 Feb 1998
- Tuesday, 08:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Defender
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78467, longitude -0.52836, in the HP1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100D0072
- Council area
- Dacorum
- 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 slight injury crash on 19 February 2009.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 19 February 2009
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Volvo 850 crash on a C road in Dacorum, 15 September 2006
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Serious
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Dacorum, 28 July 1991
81 m awayRef 19914141D0349
Slight
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Dacorum, 16 March 1990
81 m awayRef 19904141D0188
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 6 April 1987
81 m awayRef 19874141D2035
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 12 October 1989
81 m awayRef 19894141D0572
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
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 19984100D0072 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 1998.