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A414 crash in Dacorum on 4 September 1998 at 21:08 involving a Volkswagen Golf

A Volkswagen Golf and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the A414 in Dacorum at 21:08 on Friday 4 September 1998. A 51-year-old female passenger in the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
4 Sep 1998
Friday, 21:08
Vehicles
2
Volkswagen Golf and BMW 5 Series
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7538, longitude -0.43592, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead.

Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19984100D0394
Council area
Dacorum
Police force
Hertfordshire
Highway authority
Hertfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
414
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
4147

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, 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 26 April 1993.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years
    Engine capacity
    1,272 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    11 years

  • Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    49 years
    Engine capacity
    2,494 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 5 Series)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 19984100D0394 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.