A4251 crash in Dacorum on 2 September 2011 at 20:59 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit two pedestrians on the A4251 in Dacorum at 20:59 on Friday 2 September 2011. A 31-year-old female pedestrian and a 30-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 2011
- Friday, 20:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71339, longitude -0.45032, in the WD4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abbots Langley and Kings Langley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kings Langley, Dacorum, WD4 8EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100D0624
- 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
- 4251
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2022.
Slight
Car crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 14 January 2022
9 m awayRef 2022411139790
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 9 December 1996
10 m awayRef 19964100D0515
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 23 March 2021
10 m awayRef 2021411030882
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 25 February 1993
20 m awayRef 19934100D0073
Serious
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 30 March 2025
21 m awayRef 2025411586758
Slight
Car crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 29 November 2013
41 m awayRef 20134100D0716
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 20114100D0624 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 2011.