B691 crash in St Albans on 17 March 2012 at 15:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B691 in St Albans at 15:00 on Saturday 17 March 2012. A 44-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75039, longitude -0.3291, in the AL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Albans. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peters, St Albans, AL1 3LQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100F0208
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 691
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1997.
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the B691 in St Albans, 21 May 1997
At the same spotRef 19974100F0200
Slight
Audi A2 crash on the B691 in St Albans, 23 May 2014
At the same spotRef 20144100F0319
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B691 in St Albans, 17 September 2006
At the same spotRef 20064100F4792
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B691 in St Albans, 8 September 1998
At the same spotRef 19984100F0367
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B691 in St Albans, 11 March 2004
At the same spotRef 20044100F4259
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6424 in St Albans, 14 June 2017
3 m awayRef 2017410195008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 20124100F0208 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 2012.