Serious A4147 crash in Dacorum on 22 April 2007 at 00:23 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A4147 in Dacorum at 00:23 on Sunday 22 April 2007. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Apr 2007
- Sunday, 00:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74596, longitude -0.42473, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nash Mills, Dacorum, HP3 8SW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100D0354
- 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
- 4147
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2002.
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 28 February 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100D0069
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 24 September 2002
14 m awayRef 20024100D5438
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 15 June 2008
45 m awayRef 20084100D0449
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in Dacorum, 4 February 1984
58 m awayRef 19844141D1039
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in Dacorum, 28 July 1987
58 m awayRef 19874141D1231
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 9 July 1993
58 m awayRef 19934100D0247
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- 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 20074100D0354 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 2007.