B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 9 January 1998 at 17:45 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series hit a pedestrian on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 17:45 on Friday 9 January 1998. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 1998
- Friday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6175, longitude -0.39756, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100C0019
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4542
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 29 May 1996
14 m awayRef 19964100C0290
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 20 November 1998
28 m awayRef 19984100C0739
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 25 January 1995
42 m awayRef 19954100C0056
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 12 October 2000
42 m awayRef 20004100C0524
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 29 October 1990
45 m awayRef 19904141C0508
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 3 January 2001
45 m awayRef 20014100C0005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 19984100C0019 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 1998.