Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP3 on 17 September 2013 at 08:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Kia Rio and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 08:45 on Tuesday 17 September 2013. The 47-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta, a 33-year-old female passenger in the Kia Rio and the 32-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2013
- Tuesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74235, longitude -0.45064, in the HP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bennetts End, Dacorum, HP3 9QQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100D0564
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 1992.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 30 October 1992
At the same spotRef 19924100D0424
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 5 December 2009
At the same spotRef 20094100D0935
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 30 March 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100D0309
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 6 March 1995
10 m awayRef 19954100D0081
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 13 September 1997
10 m awayRef 19974100D0389
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 10 March 1989
32 m awayRef 19894141D0135
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,343 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,493 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Rio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Honda Civic)
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 20134100D0564 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 2013.