B653 crash in St Albans on 7 August 2010 at 16:18 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the B653 in St Albans at 16:18 on Saturday 7 August 2010. A 50-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2010
- Saturday, 16:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81661, longitude -0.30634, in the AL4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20104100F0574
- 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
- 653
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B653 in St Albans, 25 September 2007
10 m awayRef 20074100F4910
Slight
Alfa Romeo GTV crash on the B653 in St Albans, 2 February 2009
45 m awayRef 20094100F4095
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B653 in St Albans, 17 October 1997
45 m awayRef 19974100F0397
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the B653 in St Albans, 6 April 2008
50 m awayRef 20084100F4306
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the B653 in St Albans, 19 January 1996
67 m awayRef 19964100F0022
Serious
Car crash on the B653 in St Albans, 10 November 1989
81 m awayRef 19894141B4119
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 20104100F0574 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 2010.