Unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD3 on 6 October 1997 at 08:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 08:10 on Monday 6 October 1997. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 1997
- Monday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64715, longitude -0.44248, in the WD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rickmansworth.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100C0650
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 412
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 2025.
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 29 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025411617248
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 23 February 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100C0282
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 4 September 2015
19 m awayRef 20154100C0779
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 30 October 1992
20 m awayRef 19924100C0517
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 16 August 1998
22 m awayRef 19984100C0518
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 2 August 2006
22 m awayRef 20064100C0975
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 19974100C0650 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 1997.