C road crash in Dacorum HP23 on 12 May 2014 at 21:13 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on a C road in Dacorum at 21:13 on Monday 12 May 2014. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2014
- Monday, 21:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82927, longitude -0.69291, in the HP23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20144100D0285
- Council area
- Dacorum
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1995.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 18 December 1995
10 m awayRef 19954100D0501
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 6 September 2011
41 m awayRef 20114100D0638
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on a C road in Dacorum, 16 November 2013
57 m awayRef 20134100D0680
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 7 May 1979
76 m awayRef 19794141D2026
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 12 January 1985
76 m awayRef 19854141D2004
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Dacorum, 26 February 1997
103 m awayRef 19974100D0084
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 20144100D0285 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 2014.