Unclassified road crash in St Albans WD5 on 13 April 2007 at 20:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in St Albans at 20:25 on Friday 13 April 2007. An 18-year-old male passenger and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2007
- Friday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72516, longitude -0.40286, in the WD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100F4337
- Council area
- St Albans
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 May 2011.
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Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 8 May 2011
22 m awayRef 20114100F0318
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Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 16 April 1990
103 m awayRef 19904141C0196
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 23 November 1991
103 m awayRef 19914141C0514
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 18 February 2002
150 m awayRef 20024100F4203
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 10 October 1996
150 m awayRef 19964100C0627
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in St Albans, 13 March 1992
250 m awayRef 19924141C0119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 20074100F4337 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 2007.