A4147 crash in Dacorum on 12 December 2011 at 08:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A4147 in Dacorum at 08:50 on Monday 12 December 2011. The 54-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2011
- Monday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76831, longitude -0.46236, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highfield, Dacorum, HP2 5AT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100D0941
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4147
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 April 2018.
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 29 April 2018
13 m awayRef 2018410299064
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 12 June 2015
14 m awayRef 20154100D0258
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 1 June 2002
30 m awayRef 20024100DA006
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 25 October 2021
46 m awayRef 2021411104675
Serious
Rover Vitesse crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 27 October 2001
50 m awayRef 20014100D0439
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 27 February 1995
58 m awayRef 19954100D0074
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
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 20114100D0941 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.