Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP2 on 20 October 2012 at 16:06 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Meriva were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 16:06 on Saturday 20 October 2012. A 6-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Meriva was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2012
- Saturday, 16:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76393, longitude -0.47163, 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
- 20124100D0675
- 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
- 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
- Dry
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 23 May 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100D0229
Serious
Seat Arosa crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 20 September 2008
10 m awayRef 20084100D0723
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 26 December 2013
20 m awayRef 20134100D0758
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 11 June 1997
22 m awayRef 19974100D0243
Slight
MCW crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 16 January 1997
32 m awayRef 19974100D0016
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 4 February 1983
50 m awayRef 19834141D1039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 20124100D0675 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.