Serious unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP1 on 20 July 2025 at 11:49 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 11:49 on Sunday 20 July 2025. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jul 2025
- Sunday, 11:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76217, longitude -0.49553, in the HP1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chaulden and Warners End, Dacorum, HP1 3RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025411648914
- 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
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 2011.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 4 April 2011
15 m awayRef 20114100D0531
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 29 November 1995
15 m awayRef 19954100D0461
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 10 March 2022
18 m awayRef 2022411185122
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 9 June 1999
21 m awayRef 19994100D0216
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 19 May 1995
21 m awayRef 19954100D0194
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 19 September 1986
35 m awayRef 19864141D1296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025411648914 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 2025.