C road crash in St Albans AL1 on 22 August 2003 at 20:30 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on a C road in St Albans at 20:30 on Friday 22 August 2003. A 63-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2003
- Friday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75103, longitude -0.32343, in the AL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Albans. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clarence, St Albans, AL1 4LG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100F4859
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 691
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 20034100F4859 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 2003.