Serious A4146 crash in Dacorum on 4 September 2014 at 08:35 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A4146 in Dacorum at 08:35 on Thursday 4 September 2014. A 39-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured and the 56-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 39-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 306 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Sep 2014
- Thursday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7917, longitude -0.50521, in the HP1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20144100D0536
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4146
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2001.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 25 November 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100D0481
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 19 October 2004
At the same spotRef 20044100D0963
Slight
Car crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 29 November 1998
At the same spotRef 19984100D0526
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 6 May 2008
At the same spotRef 20084100D0363
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 23 November 2011
At the same spotRef 20114100D0895
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 13 January 2014
At the same spotRef 20144100D0072
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 20144100D0536 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.