A4251 crash in Dacorum on 22 July 2018 at 19:25 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A4251 in Dacorum at 19:25 on Sunday 22 July 2018. The 20-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 208 and the 33-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2018
- Sunday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 208 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7206, longitude -0.4512, 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
- 2018410342202
- 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
- Urban
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 November 2000.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 1 November 2000
5 m awayRef 20004100D0476
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 21 October 1993
5 m awayRef 19934100D0395
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 26 January 2004
5 m awayRef 20044100D0080
Serious
Audi 100 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 6 March 1994
5 m awayRef 19944100D0086
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 28 December 2006
5 m awayRef 20064100C1438
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 12 March 2019
9 m awayRef 2019410829425
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 208)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 2018410342202 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 2018.