C road crash in St Albans AL4 on 18 December 2012 at 14:52 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a Seat Ibiza were involved in a crash on a C road in St Albans at 14:52 on Tuesday 18 December 2012. The 78-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 207 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2012
- Tuesday, 14:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75255, longitude -0.26687, in the AL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smallford.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100F0936
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 2004.
Serious
Kawasaki KMX125 crash on a C road in St Albans, 14 October 2004
10 m awayRef 20044100F5033
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on a C road in St Albans, 24 May 1995
36 m awayRef 19954100F0193
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in St Albans, 28 July 1997
42 m awayRef 19974100F0281
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in St Albans, 27 March 2004
114 m awayRef 20044100F4316
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in St Albans, 17 July 2010
125 m awayRef 20104100F0507
Slight
Car crash on a C road in St Albans, 28 April 1990
130 m awayRef 19904141B0319
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
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 20124100F0936 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.