Serious C road crash in Dacorum HP3 on 5 July 2007 at 07:41 involving a Peugeot 207
A motorcycle and a Peugeot 207 were involved in a crash on a C road in Dacorum at 07:41 on Thursday 5 July 2007. The 55-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 2007
- Thursday, 07:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74443, longitude -0.45868, in the HP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bennetts End, Dacorum, HP3 9QQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100D0552
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 16 August 2017
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Slight
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dacorum, 1 August 2005
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Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Dacorum, 11 May 2011
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dacorum, 1 May 1979
14 m awayRef 19794141D1122
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Dacorum, 24 November 1990
14 m awayRef 19904141D0721
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), 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 20074100D0552 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 2007.