Serious B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 21 January 1988 at 13:36 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 13:36 on Thursday 21 January 1988. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jan 1988
- Thursday, 13:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62294, longitude -0.38784, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19884141C2015
- 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, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2012.
Slight
Citroen C8 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 11 November 2012
54 m awayRef 20124100C1113
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 14 February 1995
81 m awayRef 19954100C0103
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 28 August 2003
85 m awayRef 20034100C1061
Serious
Honda crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 28 April 2000
89 m awayRef 20004100C0202
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 10 June 1995
89 m awayRef 19954100C0362
Serious
Peugeot Boxer crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 27 November 1999
90 m awayRef 19994100C0710
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19884141C2015 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 1988.