C road crash in Dacorum HP2 on 13 July 2007 at 13:35 involving a Vauxhall Astra
Two Vauxhall Astras were involved in a crash on a C road in Dacorum at 13:35 on Friday 13 July 2007. The 48-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2007
- Friday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75874, longitude -0.44631, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100D0628
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 1994.
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Dacorum, 30 November 1994
At the same spotRef 19944100D0475
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 4 December 1981
36 m awayRef 19814141D1395
Slight
Van crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 8 December 1980
36 m awayRef 19804141D1456
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 23 December 1982
36 m awayRef 19824141D1402
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 31 May 1980
36 m awayRef 19804141D1163
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 19 November 1987
36 m awayRef 19874141D1364
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 20074100D0628 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.