Serious C road crash in Three Rivers WD3 on 19 June 1998 at 02:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on a C road in Three Rivers at 02:20 on Friday 19 June 1998. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jun 1998
- Friday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66526, longitude -0.52197, in the WD3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100C0407
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 4 April 1990
30 m awayRef 199043A018040
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 1 June 2000
102 m awayRef 20004100C0264
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 23 December 1986
192 m awayRef 198643A155126
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 7 September 2020
284 m awayRef 2020410992215
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 18 October 1997
284 m awayRef 19974100C0681
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 1 March 2004
291 m awayRef 20044100C0233
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 19984100C0407 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.