C road crash in St Albans AL1 on 5 January 2013 at 17:42 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in St Albans at 17:42 on Saturday 5 January 2013. A 57-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2013
- Saturday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75103, longitude -0.32328, in the AL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Albans. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clarence, St Albans, AL1 4LG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100F0016
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 691
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 slight injury crash on 27 May 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in St Albans, 27 May 1997
10 m awayRef 19974100F0197
Slight
Van crash on a C road in St Albans, 22 August 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100F4859
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1057 in St Albans, 29 July 2020
11 m awayRef 2020410970376
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in St Albans, 15 February 1995
14 m awayRef 19954100F0053
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the A1057 in St Albans, 22 January 2007
22 m awayRef 20074100F4075
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1057 in St Albans, 4 October 2002
22 m awayRef 20024100F5033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 20134100F0016 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 2013.