A4145 crash in Three Rivers on 31 May 2011 at 17:20 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers at 17:20 on Tuesday 31 May 2011. A 28-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series, the 30-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series and the 23-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 306 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2011
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63864, longitude -0.43495, in the WD18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moor Park & Eastbury, Three Rivers, WD18 9QP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100C0509
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 18 October 2000
10 m awayRef 20004100C0537
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 1 May 2003
20 m awayRef 20034100C0541
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 5 May 1999
20 m awayRef 19994100C0257
Serious
HGV crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 4 September 2000
20 m awayRef 20004100C0438
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 26 November 2007
20 m awayRef 20074100C1372
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 20 June 2001
22 m awayRef 20014100C0290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 20114100C0509 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.