B487 crash in Dacorum on 27 September 2011 at 19:00 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B487 in Dacorum at 19:00 on Tuesday 27 September 2011. The 30-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2011
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75781, longitude -0.47112, in the HP2 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
- 20114100D0706
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 487
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 15 March 1996
10 m awayRef 19964100D0111
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 19 July 2000
14 m awayRef 20004100D0331
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 22 April 2005
22 m awayRef 20054100D0353
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 7 December 1999
22 m awayRef 19994100D0493
Slight
Volvo 365 crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 12 October 1992
22 m awayRef 19924100D0393
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the B487 in Dacorum, 1 February 2002
22 m awayRef 20024100D0041
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 30, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 20114100D0706 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.