Serious C road crash in Dacorum HP4 on 27 August 1987 at 17:10 involving a car
Two cars and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Dacorum at 17:10 on Thursday 27 August 1987. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Aug 1987
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77126, longitude -0.52025, in the HP4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19874141D2085
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 February 1983.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 13 February 1983
At the same spotRef 19834141D1052
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 25 August 1989
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Dacorum, 4 December 1998
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Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Dacorum, 18 March 2014
91 m awayRef 20144100D0163
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Dacorum, 22 April 1991
100 m awayRef 19914141D0189
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 5 May 1984
100 m awayRef 19844141D1133
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 3 (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 19874141D2085 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.