B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 13 October 1993 at 11:38 involving a Dodge
A Dodge and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 11:38 on Wednesday 13 October 1993. The 20-year-old male driver of the Dodge was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 1993
- Wednesday, 11:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dodge and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62089, longitude -0.37592, 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
- 19934100C0503
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2018.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 24 May 2018
35 m awayRef 2018410301502
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 2 April 2005
36 m awayRef 20054100C0322
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 23 November 2025
38 m awayRef 2025411696062
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 19 January 2024
39 m awayRef 2024411429899
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 6 November 1992
40 m awayRef 19924100C0489
Serious
Volvo crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 16 July 1998
41 m awayRef 19984100C0451
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dodge
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dodge)
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 19934100C0503 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 1993.