B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 21 June 1998 at 01:57 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton and a Peugeot 405 were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 01:57 on Sunday 21 June 1998. A 52-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 405 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
- 21 Jun 1998
- Sunday, 01:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Carlton and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62095, longitude -0.38661, 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
- 19984100C0413
- 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 6 November 2000.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 6 November 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100C0575
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 20 December 1994
14 m awayRef 19944100C0703
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 1 November 1980
22 m awayRef 19804141C2165
Slight
MG ZR crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 27 June 2005
22 m awayRef 20054100C0683
Serious
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 10 August 1983
22 m awayRef 19834141C2127
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 27 December 1999
22 m awayRef 19994100C0764
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
- 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 19984100C0413 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.