B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 24 March 2010 at 15:10 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo hit a pedestrian on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 15:10 on Wednesday 24 March 2010. An 11-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
- 24 Mar 2010
- Wednesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61729, longitude -0.39221, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20104100C0270
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1992.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 December 1992
10 m awayRef 19924100C0589
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 30 January 1996
10 m awayRef 19964100C0088
Slight
Nissan crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 8 July 1997
22 m awayRef 19974100C0452
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 15 February 2010
28 m awayRef 20104100C0149
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 13 February 1982
32 m awayRef 19824141C2025
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 25 September 1986
32 m awayRef 19864141C2181
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 20104100C0270 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 2010.