B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 30 January 1998 at 08:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 08:40 on Friday 30 January 1998. The 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 30 Jan 1998
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61958, longitude -0.38492, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100C0068
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 25 February 2010
At the same spotRef 20104100C0183
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 4 November 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100C0646
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 21 July 1996
14 m awayRef 19964100C0442
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 10 July 2018
18 m awayRef 2018410317562
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 22 December 2007
20 m awayRef 20074100C1394
Slight
Peugeot crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 21 June 1994
20 m awayRef 19944100C0333
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19984100C0068 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.