Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP1 on 4 September 1997 at 11:10 involving a Rover Vitesse
A motorcycle and a Rover Vitesse were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 11:10 on Thursday 4 September 1997. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 1997
- Thursday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Rover Vitesse
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76576, longitude -0.4842, in the HP1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100D0370
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1996.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 26 February 1996
14 m awayRef 19964100D0084
Slight
Jaguar I-Pace crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 6 September 2025
18 m awayRef 2025411698129
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 6 April 1988
40 m awayRef 19884141D0180
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 19 August 1990
40 m awayRef 19904141D0512
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 30 March 1985
40 m awayRef 19854141D1080
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 2 September 1987
40 m awayRef 19874141D1266
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Vitesse
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 19974100D0370 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 1997.