Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP2 on 24 December 2016 at 13:00 involving a Renault Clio
A car, a Renault Clio and a BMW X3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 13:00 on Saturday 24 December 2016. The 26-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio, a 34-year-old male passenger in the Renault Clio and a 64-year-old female passenger in the Renault Clio were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault Clio and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7557, longitude -0.46665, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hemel Hempstead Town, Dacorum, HP1 1BG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016410155387
- Council area
- Dacorum
- 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
- Other junction
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Dacorum, 14 May 2004
4 m awayRef 20044100D0437
Slight
Daewoo Nexia crash on a C road in Dacorum, 18 December 2003
4 m awayRef 20034100D1294
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on a C road in Dacorum, 30 October 2014
4 m awayRef 20144100D0760
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 14 April 1993
4 m awayRef 19934100D0141
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 8 April 2006
4 m awayRef 20064100D0299
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 12 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025411622044
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 3: BMW X3
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2016410155387 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.