Serious unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD19 on 28 November 1997 at 17:15 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 17:15 on Friday 28 November 1997. A 39-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Nov 1997
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62152, longitude -0.38875, 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
- 19974100C0800
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 March 1997.
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 10 March 1997
14 m awayRef 19974100C0170
Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 24 May 2023
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Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 12 July 2014
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Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 11 July 2008
73 m awayRef 20084100C0716
Serious
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 27 June 1982
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 19974100C0800 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.