Serious unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP2 on 23 April 2003 at 18:05 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 18:05 on Wednesday 23 April 2003. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Apr 2003
- Wednesday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75317, longitude -0.46026, in the HP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Adeyfield West, Dacorum, HP2 4BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100D0388
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 1998.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 3 March 1998
At the same spotRef 19984100D0081
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 19 December 1988
28 m awayRef 19884141D0744
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 16 January 2003
73 m awayRef 20034100D0194
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 19 May 1993
76 m awayRef 19934100D0175
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 11 June 1992
100 m awayRef 19924141D0237
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 13 July 1983
113 m awayRef 19834141D1203
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- 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 20034100D0388 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 2003.