Serious B4542 crash in Three Rivers on 17 October 2013 at 23:21 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B4542 in Three Rivers at 23:21 on Thursday 17 October 2013. The 69-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Oct 2013
- Thursday, 23:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6217, longitude -0.38599, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Oxhey, Three Rivers, WD19 7SD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20134100C0851
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2020.
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 7 September 2020
24 m awayRef 2020410997545
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 26 December 1992
30 m awayRef 19924100C0606
Slight
Van crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 19 April 2007
30 m awayRef 20074100C0388
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 11 January 2012
32 m awayRef 20124100C0030
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 15 November 2014
32 m awayRef 20144100C1179
Fatal
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 21 April 2004
32 m awayRef 20044100C0468
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 20134100C0851 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 2013.