A4147 crash in Dacorum on 5 January 1993 at 17:20 involving a BMW motorcycle
A car and a BMW motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4147 in Dacorum at 17:20 on Tuesday 5 January 1993. The 30-year-old male rider of the BMW motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 1993
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74744, longitude -0.43078, in the HP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19934100D0004
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4147
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2003.
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 8 September 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100D0846
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 29 December 2015
20 m awayRef 20154100D0699
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 6 July 2021
22 m awayRef 2021411065217
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 25 July 2009
41 m awayRef 20094100D0562
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on the A4147 in Dacorum, 11 October 2018
50 m awayRef 2018410810472
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Dacorum, 15 January 1997
50 m awayRef 19974100D0035
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: BMW
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 650 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (BMW)
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 19934100D0004 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 1993.