A4146 crash in Dacorum on 29 October 2017 at 17:15 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
A Mitsubishi Shogun and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A4146 in Dacorum at 17:15 on Sunday 29 October 2017. The 46-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Shogun and the 30-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2017
- Sunday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Shogun and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76346, longitude -0.47892, in the HP1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grovehill, Dacorum, HP1 3DL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410235646
- 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
- 4146
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 28 March 2004
2 m awayRef 20044100D0279
Fatal
Renault Clio crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 21 March 2010
8 m awayRef 20104100D0188
Serious
Yamaha R6 crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 24 February 2012
8 m awayRef 20124100D0123
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 23 June 2022
10 m awayRef 2022411215911
Slight
Derbi Senda crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 17 April 2004
14 m awayRef 20044100D0352
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4146 in Dacorum, 31 July 1992
18 m awayRef 19924141D0293
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Shogun
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Shogun)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017410235646 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.