A5 crash in Dacorum on 30 April 2002 at 14:56 involving a Honda H100S motorcycle
A Honda H100S motorcycle, two cars and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A5 in Dacorum at 14:56 on Tuesday 30 April 2002. The 39-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2002
- Tuesday, 14:56
- Vehicles
- 4
- Honda H100S and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8244, longitude -0.43389, in the AL3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Watling, Dacorum, AL3 8HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20024100D0129
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining, 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 1 February 2015.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 1 February 2015
At the same spotRef 20154100D0078
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A5183 in Dacorum, 9 December 2019
9 m awayRef 2019410925568
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 10 September 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100D0626
Slight
MG 3 crash on the A5183 in Dacorum, 26 May 2023
10 m awayRef 2023411331712
Fatal
Hyundai Pony crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 18 August 1996
14 m awayRef 19964100D0318
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5 in Dacorum, 16 October 2000
14 m awayRef 20004100D0452
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Honda H100S
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 99 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 4: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
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 20024100D0129 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 2002.