A4251 crash in Dacorum on 2 August 2017 at 22:30 involving an Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle
A car and an Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4251 in Dacorum at 22:30 on Wednesday 2 August 2017. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2017
- Wednesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Aprilia SR 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74312, longitude -0.49135, in the HP3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Apsley and Corner Hall, Dacorum, HP3 9AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410214274
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1998.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 25 April 1998
17 m awayRef 19984100D0170
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 28 February 2000
22 m awayRef 20004100D0081
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 11 October 2013
22 m awayRef 20134100D0604
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 27 April 2000
23 m awayRef 20004100D0176
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 5 October 2003
25 m awayRef 20034100D0931
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A4251 in Dacorum, 28 November 2006
27 m awayRef 20064100D1099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Aprilia SR 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia SR 50)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2017410214274 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 2017.