Unclassified road crash in St Albans AL3 on 1 June 2016 at 01:52 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class crashed on an unclassified road in St Albans at 01:52 on Wednesday 1 June 2016. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jun 2016
- Wednesday, 01:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76567, longitude -0.34326, 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
- 2016410079398
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 8 February 1997.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 8 February 1997
8 m awayRef 19974100F0041
Serious
Rover Mini crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 22 August 2013
8 m awayRef 20134100F0529
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 27 January 2005
30 m awayRef 20054100F4089
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 21 July 2009
49 m awayRef 20094100F0180
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in St Albans, 26 May 1990
53 m awayRef 19904141B0398
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 2 March 2005
53 m awayRef 20054100F4208
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2016410079398 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 2016.