B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 30 October 1987 at 21:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 21:30 on Friday 30 October 1987. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 1987
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61861, longitude -0.39955, 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
- 19874141C2158
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 2 March 1985
At the same spotRef 19854141C2035
Serious
Opel Kadett crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 28 June 1991
At the same spotRef 19914141C0268
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 4 December 1983
At the same spotRef 19834141C2211
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 July 1982
At the same spotRef 19824141C2138
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 18 December 2004
58 m awayRef 20044100C1583
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 22 February 1996
67 m awayRef 19964100C0122
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 19874141C2158 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 1987.