A41 crash in Dacorum on 13 July 2007 at 21:40 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A41 in Dacorum at 21:40 on Friday 13 July 2007. The 21-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2007
- Friday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX600 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71615, longitude -0.46905, in the WD4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100D0558
- 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
- 41
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2012.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 11 December 2012
50 m awayRef 20124100D0766
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 2 January 1998
54 m awayRef 19984100D0004
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 9 October 2001
54 m awayRef 20014100D0401
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 17 May 2001
76 m awayRef 20014100D0200
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 12 October 1993
102 m awayRef 19934100D0387
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 18 February 2008
134 m awayRef 20084100D0134
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 20074100D0558 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.