Serious A41 crash in Dacorum on 5 June 1990 at 22:07 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on the A41 in Dacorum at 22:07 on Tuesday 5 June 1990. The 17-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jun 1990
- Tuesday, 22:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78319, longitude -0.61409, in the HP23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19904141D0375
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1990.
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 20 December 1990
At the same spotRef 19904141D0787
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 29 April 1983
At the same spotRef 19834141D2037
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 26 October 1984
At the same spotRef 19844141D2093
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 21 November 1985
At the same spotRef 19854141D2104
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 24 January 2003
45 m awayRef 20034100D0104
Slight
Mercedes SL Class crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 16 December 2008
51 m awayRef 20084100D1010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 19904141D0375 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 1990.