B5378 crash in St Albans on 26 July 2008 at 23:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Volvo V50 were involved in a crash on the B5378 in St Albans at 23:50 on Saturday 26 July 2008. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Volvo V50 was 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
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2008
- Saturday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Volvo V50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72956, longitude -0.31206, in the AL2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cunningham, St Albans, AL1 1UE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20084100F4711
- 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
- 5378
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5378
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2013.
Slight
Renault crash on the B5378 in St Albans, 10 June 2013
At the same spotRef 20134100F0370
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B5378 in Dacorum, 13 December 1999
At the same spotRef 19994100F0538
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B5378 in St Albans, 22 November 1998
At the same spotRef 19984100F0502
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B5378 in St Albans, 1 February 2014
At the same spotRef 20144100F0070
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the B5378 in St Albans, 26 May 2000
At the same spotRef 20004100F0260
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the B5378 in St Albans, 9 June 2017
1 m awayRef 2017410197681
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo V50
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo V50)
- 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 20084100F4711 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 2008.