B487 crash in Dacorum on 3 December 2015 at 10:40 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the B487 in Dacorum at 10:40 on Thursday 3 December 2015. The 22-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77117, longitude -0.44817, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highfield, Dacorum, HP2 5UD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20154100D0630
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 487
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2006.
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 27 March 2006
8 m awayRef 20064100D0266
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 29 December 1997
9 m awayRef 19974100D0547
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 10 May 2001
18 m awayRef 20014100D0187
Serious
Car crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 24 May 2017
26 m awayRef 2017410190901
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 17 June 1996
27 m awayRef 19964100D0234
Slight
Car crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 21 June 2018
27 m awayRef 2018410320166
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
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 20154100D0630 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.