B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 19 October 2012 at 17:26 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 17:26 on Friday 19 October 2012. The 46-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2012
- Friday, 17:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61836, longitude -0.39824, 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
- 20124100C0899
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 1991.
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 5 February 1991
22 m awayRef 19914141C0070
Serious
Opel Kadett crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 3 November 1993
41 m awayRef 19934100C0545
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 5 September 2021
53 m awayRef 2021411089462
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 22 February 1996
58 m awayRef 19964100C0122
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 23 April 2003
58 m awayRef 20034100C0492
Slight
Audi TT crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 16 November 2017
60 m awayRef 2017410246256
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 20124100C0899 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 2012.