Serious B652 crash in St Albans on 20 December 2006 at 12:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B652 in St Albans at 12:45 on Wednesday 20 December 2006. The 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2006
- Wednesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82432, longitude -0.34262, in the AL5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harpenden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harpenden North & Rural, St Albans, AL5 4UT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20064100F5142
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 652
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2006.
Slight
Ford Ranger crash on the B652 in St Albans, 22 February 2006
At the same spotRef 20064100F4150
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B652 in St Albans, 26 June 2013
At the same spotRef 20134100F0417
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B652 in St Albans, 2 July 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100F0261
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the B652 in St Albans, 8 February 1999
At the same spotRef 19994100F0059
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B652 in St Albans, 24 May 2020
5 m awayRef 2020410961721
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B652 in St Albans, 29 January 2016
6 m awayRef 20164100F0064
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, 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 20064100F5142 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 2006.