Unclassified road crash in St Albans AL4 on 12 June 2002 at 13:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in St Albans at 13:30 on Wednesday 12 June 2002. The 62-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2002
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77331, longitude -0.30303, in the AL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Albans. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marshalswick East & Jersey Farm, St Albans, AL4 9JX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20024100F4615
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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 15 January 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 15 January 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100F4062
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 31 October 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100B1401
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 16 July 1992
10 m awayRef 19924141B1213
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 17 November 2001
20 m awayRef 20014100F0456
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 24 October 1996
22 m awayRef 19964100F0399
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 20 May 1996
32 m awayRef 19964100F0194
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 20024100F4615 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the St Albans road accident statistics for 2002.