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Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP2 on 27 December 1997 at 16:55 involving a Ford Orion

A Ford Orion hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 16:55 on Saturday 27 December 1997. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Dec 1997
Saturday, 16:55
Vehicles
1
Ford Orion
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76483, longitude -0.46133, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19974100D0543
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
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
Dark, street lights unlit
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 4 November 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Orion

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    66 years
    Engine capacity
    1,597 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)

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

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 19974100D0543 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.