B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 28 April 2011 at 16:10 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 16:10 on Thursday 28 April 2011. The 46-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Apr 2011
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6202, longitude -0.38806, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Oxhey, Three Rivers, WD19 7SD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100C0429
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4542
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 10 March 1997
At the same spotRef 19974100C0169
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 29 December 1998
At the same spotRef 19984100C0839
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 3 November 2013
At the same spotRef 20134100C1017
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025411644946
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025411605450
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 14 July 2017
6 m awayRef 2017410211713
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 20114100C0429 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 2011.