B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 22 July 2003 at 22:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 22:00 on Tuesday 22 July 2003. The 15-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 junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2003
- Tuesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6281, longitude -0.3872, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100C0922
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 5 January 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 5 January 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100C0012
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 1 October 2000
At the same spotRef 20004100C0505
Serious
Honda ANF125 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 30 May 2014
At the same spotRef 20144100C0669
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 16 August 2007
At the same spotRef 20074100C0853
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 24 June 2024
6 m awayRef 2024411460471
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 28 May 2015
8 m awayRef 20154100C0470
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, 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 20034100C0922 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.