B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 25 December 2001 at 05:05 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 05:05 on Tuesday 25 December 2001. The 17-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2001
- Tuesday, 05:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62016, longitude -0.37896, in the WD19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carpenders Park, Three Rivers, WD19 5RL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20014100C0656
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 1994.
Serious
Volvo crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 6 July 1994
At the same spotRef 19944100C0360
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 11 October 1994
At the same spotRef 19944100C0527
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 6 April 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100C0171
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 9 January 1999
At the same spotRef 19994100C0012
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 30 July 1982
22 m awayRef 19824141C2145
Slight
Van crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 25 July 1986
22 m awayRef 19864141C2137
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
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 20014100C0656 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 2001.