Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP3 on 22 April 2012 at 02:02 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 02:02 on Sunday 22 April 2012. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 2012
- Sunday, 02:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70137, longitude -0.52989, in the HP3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100D0299
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 2022.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 1 October 2022
8 m awayRef 2022411225765
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Dacorum, 29 April 1995
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Serious
Rover 600 Series crash on a C road in Dacorum, 12 July 1994
14 m awayRef 19944100D0265
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 1 December 1993
14 m awayRef 19934100D0453
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 5 May 1990
22 m awayRef 19904141D0305
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 5 October 1981
22 m awayRef 19814141D1320
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 20124100D0299 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.