B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 16 April 2003 at 20:55 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 20:55 on Wednesday 16 April 2003. The 9-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2003
- Wednesday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62882, longitude -0.38747, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Oxhey, Three Rivers, WD19 7SD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100C0458
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 20 June 1999
At the same spotRef 19994100C0366
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 14 July 2022
9 m awayRef 2022411218175
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 26 July 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100C0360
Slight
BMW X3 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 3 May 2018
11 m awayRef 2018410293040
Serious
Honda Prelude crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 27 December 1992
40 m awayRef 19924100C0609
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 3 December 1984
41 m awayRef 19844141C2249
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 9, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 20034100C0458 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 2003.