C road crash in St Albans AL4 on 23 December 2011 at 21:55 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on a C road in St Albans at 21:55 on Friday 23 December 2011. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2011
- Friday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73026, longitude -0.2557, 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
- 20114100F0924
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 September 2010.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in St Albans, 14 September 2010
10 m awayRef 20104100F0956
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in St Albans, 26 November 2007
10 m awayRef 20074100F5137
Slight
Car crash on the B556 in Hertsmere, 18 May 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010SA0330
Slight
Nissan 200 crash on a C road in St Albans, 3 July 1993
10 m awayRef 19934100B1207
Slight
Renault 25 crash on a C road in St Albans, 21 April 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100F0169
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in St Albans, 12 January 1999
41 m awayRef 19994100F0016
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 20114100F0924 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 2011.