Unclassified road crash in Dacorum HP1 on 11 July 2011 at 11:00 involving a DAF Trucks bus
A DAF Trucks bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dacorum at 11:00 on Monday 11 July 2011. An 80-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2011
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75254, longitude -0.4739, in the HP1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hemel Hempstead Town, Dacorum, HP1 1BG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100D0532
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2011.
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 25 July 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100D0516
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 29 March 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100D0119
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 11 March 1995
14 m awayRef 19954100D0083
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 12 March 1996
14 m awayRef 19964100D0104
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 29 August 1998
22 m awayRef 19984100D0382
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 5 August 1995
28 m awayRef 19954100D0293
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 20114100D0532 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 2011.