Unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD5 on 15 November 2012 at 13:30 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia and a Mercedes Vito van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 13:30 on Thursday 15 November 2012. The 41-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Vito van 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
- 15 Nov 2012
- Thursday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Insignia and Mercedes Vito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72133, longitude -0.41197, in the WD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedmond.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100C0989
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 November 1989.
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 27 November 1989
14 m awayRef 19894141C1417
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 8 July 1984
14 m awayRef 19844141C1252
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 12 November 1983
14 m awayRef 19834141C1387
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 26 September 1979
14 m awayRef 19794141C1236
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 25 November 1982
14 m awayRef 19824141C1500
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 25 January 2002
63 m awayRef 20024100C0046
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Vito)
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 20124100C0989 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.