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Serious unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP1 on 15 January 1987 at 13:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 13:00 on Thursday 15 January 1987. A 61-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
15 Jan 1987
Thursday, 13:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75091, longitude -0.476, in the HP1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead.

Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19874141D1016
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 with high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 January 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 19874141D1016 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 1987.