Serious C road crash in Dacorum HP3 on 7 November 2012 at 17:52 involving a Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle
A Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on a C road in Dacorum at 17:52 on Wednesday 7 November 2012. The 50-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane 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
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Nov 2012
- Wednesday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR1100XX and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74258, longitude -0.46149, in the HP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hemel Hempstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Apsley and Corner Hall, Dacorum, HP3 9YT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100D0692
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 28 August 2014
At the same spotRef 20144100D0537
Slight
Piaggio crash on a C road in Dacorum, 9 September 1999
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Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 29 August 2018
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Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Dacorum, 8 December 2017
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Slight
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Dacorum, 5 June 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100D0216
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR1100XX
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,137 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 2: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR1100XX)
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 20124100D0692 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 2012.