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A4251 crash in Dacorum on 16 April 1998 at 08:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf

A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A4251 in Dacorum at 08:10 on Thursday 16 April 1998. The 32-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Apr 1998
Thursday, 08:10
Vehicles
2
Volkswagen Golf and Ford Escort
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71407, longitude -0.45046, in the WD4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abbots Langley and Kings Langley.

Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19984100D0153
Council area
Dacorum
Police force
Hertfordshire
Highway authority
Hertfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4251
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1994.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Engine capacity
    1,300 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    14 years

  • Vehicle 2: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    32 years
    Engine capacity
    1,597 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 32, 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 19984100D0153 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.