A4251 crash in Dacorum on 29 October 2011 at 17:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4251 in Dacorum at 17:00 on Saturday 29 October 2011. The 44-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle 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
- 29 Oct 2011
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Suzuki GSXR 750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76146, longitude -0.56822, in the HP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Berkhamsted. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berkhamsted East, Dacorum, HP4 1BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100D0766
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4251
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 3 February 2023
14 m awayRef 2023411314994
Serious
Porsche 911 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 15 March 1994
20 m awayRef 19944100D0099
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 27 February 2016
28 m awayRef 20164100D0109
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A41 in Dacorum, 28 June 1993
32 m awayRef 19934100D0229
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 5 August 1994
45 m awayRef 19944100D0299
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 21 July 2001
45 m awayRef 20014100D0297
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSXR 750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSXR 750)
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 20114100D0766 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.