B4635 crash in Dacorum on 27 April 2001 at 17:56 involving a Mercedes 200 van
A Mercedes 200 van and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B4635 in Dacorum at 17:56 on Friday 27 April 2001. The 59-year-old male driver of the Mercedes 200 van and the 38-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2001
- Friday, 17:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes 200 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7946, longitude -0.65607, in the HP23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tring. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tring Central, Dacorum, HP23 5DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20014100D0169
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4635
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2013.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4635 in Dacorum, 5 September 2013
10 m awayRef 20134100D0538
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4635 in Dacorum, 2 October 1996
20 m awayRef 19964100D0380
Slight
Car crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 12 November 1989
28 m awayRef 19894141D0666
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B4635 in Dacorum, 18 May 1999
61 m awayRef 19994100D0190
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B4635 in Dacorum, 12 March 2001
61 m awayRef 20014100D0120
Slight
Opel Manta crash on a C road in Dacorum, 4 February 1995
76 m awayRef 19954100D0045
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes 200)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 20014100D0169 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 2001.