Unclassified road crash in Dacorum AL3 on 24 March 2012 at 15:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 15:00 on Saturday 24 March 2012. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8359, longitude -0.46063, in the AL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Markyate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Watling, Dacorum, AL3 8FL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100D0206
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 2001.
Slight
Yamaha Why crash on a C road in Dacorum, 21 June 2001
10 m awayRef 20014100D0246
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Dacorum, 25 April 2006
14 m awayRef 20064100D0368
Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Dacorum, 10 November 1998
14 m awayRef 19984100D0489
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dacorum, 23 October 1995
14 m awayRef 19954100D0399
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Dacorum, 11 November 2005
22 m awayRef 20054100D0999
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 3 April 2004
36 m awayRef 20044100D0329
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 20124100D0206 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 2012.