Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP2 on 18 December 1979 at 08:57 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 08:57 on Tuesday 18 December 1979. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1979
- Tuesday, 08:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75892, longitude -0.46994, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19794141D1419
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1994.
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 30 August 1998
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Vauxhall Agila crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 8 April 2015
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BMW 3 Series crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 14 November 2018
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BMW 3 Series crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 19 February 2001
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 19794141D1419 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.