A4146 crash in Dacorum on 31 March 2012 at 08:50 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4, a bus or coach and a Vauxhall Agila were involved in a crash on the A4146 in Dacorum at 08:50 on Saturday 31 March 2012. The 63-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Agila and the 23-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi A4 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79773, longitude -0.51269, in the HP1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100D0281
- 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
- 4146
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2016.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 19 May 2016
17 m awayRef 2016410078019
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 19 September 2001
28 m awayRef 20014100D0377
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 15 April 2000
50 m awayRef 20004100D0224
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 3 February 2003
57 m awayRef 20034100D0123
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 3 May 2000
57 m awayRef 20004100D0186
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 14 August 1993
64 m awayRef 19934100D0299
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
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
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,630 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 27 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Agila)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
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 20124100D0281 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.