Unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD19 on 21 November 2009 at 12:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 12:00 on Saturday 21 November 2009. The 9-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2009
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63257, longitude -0.38545, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carpenders Park, Three Rivers, WD19 5RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20094100C1079
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 25 April 2004
41 m awayRef 20044100C0515
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 12 March 1984
63 m awayRef 19844141C2054
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 20 July 1984
63 m awayRef 19844141C2148
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 11 August 2002
81 m awayRef 20024100C5381
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 15 June 1991
89 m awayRef 19914141C0249
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 8 December 2009
102 m awayRef 20094100C1186
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- 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 20094100C1079 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 2009.