B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 12 December 2002 at 01:13 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 01:13 on Thursday 12 December 2002. The 64-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 01:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6211, longitude -0.37517, in the WD19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carpenders Park, Three Rivers, WD19 5RL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20024100C5909
- 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
- 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
- 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 10 August 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 10 August 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100C0782
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 14 February 2002
51 m awayRef 20024100C0076
Slight
Dodge crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 13 October 1993
58 m awayRef 19934100C0503
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 24 May 2018
91 m awayRef 2018410301502
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 2 April 2005
94 m awayRef 20054100C0322
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 6 November 1992
95 m awayRef 19924100C0489
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 20024100C5909 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 2002.