A4145 crash in Three Rivers on 14 March 2008 at 15:56 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo hit a pedestrian on the A4145 in Three Rivers at 15:56 on Friday 14 March 2008. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2008
- Friday, 15:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64612, longitude -0.41648, in the WD18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holywell, Watford, WD18 8AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20084100C0284
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4145
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4145 in Watford, 10 May 2013
At the same spotRef 20134100C0384
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4145 in Watford, 2 August 1999
At the same spotRef 19994100C0457
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 25 November 2017
3 m awayRef 2017410258541
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4145 in Watford, 14 March 2024
4 m awayRef 2024411434734
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on the A4145 in Watford, 24 November 2024
6 m awayRef 2024411526109
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4145 in Watford, 7 October 2015
6 m awayRef 20154100C0937
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 20084100C0284 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 2008.