Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP23 on 21 March 2023 at 12:55 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 12:55 on Tuesday 21 March 2023. The 86-year-old female driver of the Skoda Fabia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2023
- Tuesday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8319, longitude -0.69803, in the HP23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023411293902
- Council area
- Dacorum
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2025.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 24 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025411700567
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 7 July 2017
10 m awayRef 2017410215277
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dacorum, 24 July 2009
16 m awayRef 20094100D0574
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 5 April 1980
16 m awayRef 19804141D2027
Serious
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 11 December 1996
97 m awayRef 19964100D0516
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 30 January 1989
111 m awayRef 19894141D0056
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- 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 2023411293902 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 2023.