A4251 crash in Dacorum on 24 January 2016 at 17:05 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A4251 in Dacorum at 17:05 on Sunday 24 January 2016. The 39-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71247, longitude -0.44983, in the WD4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abbots Langley and Kings Langley. 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
- 20164100D0036
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 August 2022.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 29 August 2022
5 m awayRef 2022411219980
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 20 May 2015
5 m awayRef 20154100C0417
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 19 May 2025
5 m awayRef 2025411650766
Slight
Kawasaki ZR750 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 23 May 2019
6 m awayRef 2019410893676
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 6 July 1994
6 m awayRef 19944100D0258
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 22 May 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100D0227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 20164100D0036 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 2016.