B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 2 May 1998 at 01:23 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 01:23 on Saturday 2 May 1998. A 32-year-old female passenger 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
- 2 May 1998
- Saturday, 01:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61998, longitude -0.38794, 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
- 19984100C0275
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 2001.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 27 February 2001
10 m awayRef 20014100C0140
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 24 September 2018
15 m awayRef 2018410337972
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 24 April 2003
22 m awayRef 20034100C0474
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 11 October 1993
22 m awayRef 19934100C0482
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 25 July 1994
28 m awayRef 19944100C0399
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 March 1997
28 m awayRef 19974100C0183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 19984100C0275 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.