B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 4 January 1983 at 13:15 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 13:15 on Tuesday 4 January 1983. The 70-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 1983
- Tuesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62025, longitude -0.38793, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19834141C2003
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4542
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4542
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 November 1980.
Serious
Minibus crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 29 November 1980
At the same spotRef 19804141C2183
Serious
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 8 May 1979
At the same spotRef 19794141C2147
Serious
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 21 April 1982
At the same spotRef 19824141C2067
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 14 July 2017
7 m awayRef 2017410211713
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 28 April 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100C0429
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 3 November 2013
10 m awayRef 20134100C1017
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19834141C2003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Three Rivers road accident statistics for 1983.