C road crash in St Albans AL3 on 7 April 2013 at 15:50 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on a C road in St Albans at 15:50 on Sunday 7 April 2013. A 13-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Qashqai was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2013
- Sunday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76342, longitude -0.34731, in the AL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Albans. It is one of the crashes that make up the Batchwood, St Albans, AL3 5TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100F0209
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2008.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- 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 20134100F0209 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.