B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 25 September 1986 at 08:28 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 08:28 on Thursday 25 September 1986. An 11-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car 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
- 25 Sep 1986
- Thursday, 08:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61761, longitude -0.39236, 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
- 19864141C2181
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 slight injury crash on 24 June 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 24 June 1984
At the same spotRef 19844141C2122
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 14 June 1980
At the same spotRef 19804141C2087
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 28 August 1985
At the same spotRef 19854141C2163
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 13 February 1982
At the same spotRef 19824141C2025
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 24 March 2010
32 m awayRef 20104100C0270
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 December 1992
36 m awayRef 19924100C0589
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 19864141C2181 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.