Serious C road crash in Three Rivers WD5 on 21 November 2012 at 21:55 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on a C road in Three Rivers at 21:55 on Wednesday 21 November 2012. A 21-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 20-year-old male driver 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
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2012
- Wednesday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71772, longitude -0.41109, in the WD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedmond. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbots Langley & Bedmond, Three Rivers, WD5 0QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20124100C1033
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 2013.
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 25 October 2013
30 m awayRef 20134100C0923
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 17 November 2007
60 m awayRef 20074100C1174
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 17 January 1979
61 m awayRef 19794141C2022
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 28 October 2000
61 m awayRef 20004100C0560
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 6 April 1992
61 m awayRef 19924141C0196
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Watford, 27 December 2003
70 m awayRef 20034100C1656
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 20124100C1033 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.