Serious unclassified road crash in Dacorum AL3 on 6 July 1979 at 16:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 16:30 on Friday 6 July 1979. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jul 1979
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82601, longitude -0.44299, in the AL3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19794141D1204
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 80 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2004.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 24 December 2004
80 m awayRef 20044100D1220
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 1 January 1980
100 m awayRef 19804141D1004
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 21 September 1984
100 m awayRef 19844141D1282
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 28 July 1986
100 m awayRef 19864141D2101
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 26 July 1980
100 m awayRef 19804141D1252
Serious
Van crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 12 January 1979
100 m awayRef 19794141D1009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 19794141D1204 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 1979.