Serious B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 10 October 2006 at 19:33 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 19:33 on Tuesday 10 October 2006. A 19-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were 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
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Oct 2006
- Tuesday, 19:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61961, longitude -0.40426, in the HA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moor Park & Eastbury, Three Rivers, HA6 3HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20064100C1082
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2008.
Slight
Renault crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 18 January 2008
At the same spotRef 20084100C0069
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 6 February 2002
At the same spotRef 20024100C0068
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 13 April 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100C0184
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 20 February 2001
10 m awayRef 20014100C0095
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 13 February 2007
14 m awayRef 20074100C0181
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 6 May 2007
14 m awayRef 20074100C0430
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 20064100C1082 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 2006.