Unclassified road crash in St Albans AL2 on 6 April 2021 at 10:21 involving a Seat Leon
A vehicle and a Seat Leon were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in St Albans at 10:21 on Tuesday 6 April 2021. The 31-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2021
- Tuesday, 10:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70657, longitude -0.36244, in the AL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bricket Wood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Park Street, St Albans, AL2 2AG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021411037402
- Council area
- St Albans
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 21 June 2000
8 m awayRef 20004100F0308
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 23 September 1979
61 m awayRef 19794141F1317
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 26 December 1996
133 m awayRef 19964100F0507
Serious
Car crash on a C road in St Albans, 6 September 1983
169 m awayRef 19834141F1256
Slight
Car crash on a C road in St Albans, 27 October 1988
169 m awayRef 19884141B5071
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in St Albans, 6 November 1980
169 m awayRef 19804141F1340
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 147 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021411037402 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the St Albans road accident statistics for 2021.