A4251 crash in Dacorum on 6 September 2017 at 12:24 involving a Mitsubishi Outlander
A Mitsubishi Outlander and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A4251 in Dacorum at 12:24 on Wednesday 6 September 2017. The 41-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 12:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Outlander and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75457, longitude -0.54777, in the HP4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410227700
- 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
- 40 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
- 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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 1 February 2008
26 m awayRef 20084100D0090
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 8 May 2010
35 m awayRef 20104100D0334
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 10 December 1988
36 m awayRef 19884141D0718
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 26 September 1982
36 m awayRef 19824141D2105
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 30 January 1993
39 m awayRef 19934100D0038
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 18 December 2011
48 m awayRef 20114100D0934
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2017410227700 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 2017.