C road crash in Three Rivers WD17 on 16 December 2011 at 17:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on a C road in Three Rivers at 17:30 on Friday 16 December 2011. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2011
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66061, longitude -0.39704, in the WD17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Watford, WD17 1BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100C1233
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2002.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Watford, 4 December 2002
At the same spotRef 20024100C5893
Slight
MCW crash on a C road in Watford, 29 July 1995
20 m awayRef 19954100C0451
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on a C road in Watford, 30 June 2010
20 m awayRef 20104100C0631
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Watford, 4 September 2008
20 m awayRef 20084100C0903
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Watford, 9 August 1999
20 m awayRef 19994100C0474
Slight
Kawasaki crash on a C road in Watford, 5 October 1998
20 m awayRef 19984100C0645
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 20114100C1233 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.