Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP4 on 5 November 2005 at 13:55 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 13:55 on Saturday 5 November 2005. The 73-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2005
- Saturday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75626, longitude -0.55462, in the HP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Berkhamsted. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berkhamsted Castle, Dacorum, HP4 2EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20054100D0968
- Council area
- Dacorum
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 6 May 1992
41 m awayRef 19924141D0207
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 22 December 1983
41 m awayRef 19834141D2124
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 12 September 1980
41 m awayRef 19804141D2096
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 12 May 1986
41 m awayRef 19864141D2053
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 6 March 1990
61 m awayRef 19904141D0156
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 11 October 1982
61 m awayRef 19824141D2113
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 20054100D0968 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 2005.