A4251 crash in Dacorum on 21 November 2003 at 22:50 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A4251 in Dacorum at 22:50 on Friday 21 November 2003. A 21-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2003
- Friday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota RAV4 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72711, longitude -0.45434, in the HP3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kings Langley, Dacorum, HP3 9TD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100D1126
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2013.
Slight
Seat Arosa crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 12 August 2013
10 m awayRef 20134100C0688
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 16 April 1998
10 m awayRef 19984100D0156
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 8 December 1995
10 m awayRef 19954100D0478
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 3 December 2001
10 m awayRef 20014100D0500
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 9 November 2023
12 m awayRef 2023411380471
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 13 November 2023
13 m awayRef 2023411380827
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 20034100D1126 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 2003.