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Serious unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD5 on 14 December 2007 at 19:13 involving a Volvo 740

A Volvo 740 and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 19:13 on Friday 14 December 2007. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured. Four of them were pedestrians.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
14 Dec 2007
Friday, 19:13
Vehicles
2
Volvo 740 and other vehicle
Casualties
4
2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70558, longitude -0.41745, in the WD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abbots Langley and Kings Langley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leavesden, Three Rivers, WD5 0XB area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
20074100C1334
Council area
Three Rivers
Police force
Hertfordshire
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Hertfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2024.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 740

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    72 years
    Engine capacity
    1,986 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    19 years

  • Vehicle 2: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    Position at junction
    Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (4)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 740)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 740)

  • Casualty 3: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 740)

  • Casualty 4: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 740)

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 20074100C1334 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 2007.