B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 25 July 1986 at 06:00 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 06:00 on Friday 25 July 1986. The 21-year-old male driver of the van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 1986
- Friday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62013, longitude -0.37927, in the WD19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19864141C2137
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 7 May 1982
At the same spotRef 19824141C2087
Serious
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 2 July 1982
At the same spotRef 19824141C2127
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 30 July 1982
At the same spotRef 19824141C2145
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 7 December 2003
At the same spotRef 20034100C1537
Serious
Volvo crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 6 July 1994
22 m awayRef 19944100C0360
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 11 October 1994
22 m awayRef 19944100C0527
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 19864141C2137 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 1986.