Unclassified road crash in Dacorum WD4 on 8 April 2021 at 12:19 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 12:19 on Thursday 8 April 2021. A 26-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2021
- Thursday, 12:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72199, longitude -0.47268, in the WD4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021411136802
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 47 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 December 1998.
Fatal
Honda Civic crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 14 December 1998
47 m awayRef 19984100D0544
Serious
Suzuki GSX 600 crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 28 November 1999
49 m awayRef 19994100D0480
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 20 June 2002
58 m awayRef 20024100DA105
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1200 crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 28 August 2016
98 m awayRef 2016410134014
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 26 December 2001
130 m awayRef 20014100D0540
Serious
Daihatsu HI-Jet crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 8 December 2003
140 m awayRef 20034100D1253
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2021411136802 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 2021.