B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 28 May 1998 at 23:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A car and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 23:00 on Thursday 28 May 1998. The 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 1998
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62211, longitude -0.38599, 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
- 19984100C0340
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2007.
Slight
Van crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 April 2007
10 m awayRef 20074100C0388
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 26 December 1992
10 m awayRef 19924100C0606
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 July 2005
10 m awayRef 20054100C0800
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 11 January 2012
14 m awayRef 20124100C0030
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 15 November 2014
14 m awayRef 20144100C1179
Fatal
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 21 April 2004
14 m awayRef 20044100C0468
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 19984100C0340 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.