A4251 crash in Dacorum on 12 November 2015 at 08:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Agila were involved in a crash on the A4251 in Dacorum at 08:10 on Thursday 12 November 2015. The 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 22-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra 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
- 12 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7165, longitude -0.45006, in the WD4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kings Langley, Dacorum, WD4 8EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20154100D0576
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4251
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 October 2005.
Serious
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 28 October 2005
11 m awayRef 20054100D0935
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 8 December 2002
11 m awayRef 20024100D5740
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 1 March 2005
16 m awayRef 20054100C0209
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 12 March 2009
21 m awayRef 20094100C0202
Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on the A4251 in Watford, 24 September 2007
21 m awayRef 20074100C0977
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 29 October 2011
21 m awayRef 20114100D0870
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 20154100D0576 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 2015.