Serious C road crash in Three Rivers WD5 on 30 July 2015 at 09:20 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A bicycle and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on a C road in Three Rivers at 09:20 on Thursday 30 July 2015. The 47-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jul 2015
- Thursday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72299, longitude -0.41041, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20154100F0486
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 November 1979.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 10 November 1979
9 m awayRef 19794141C1319
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 30 December 1979
9 m awayRef 19794141C1401
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 4 September 2022
55 m awayRef 2022411244696
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 15 February 1996
55 m awayRef 19964100C0115
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 7 March 2001
56 m awayRef 20014100C0121
Serious
Aprilia crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 12 June 2015
58 m awayRef 20154100C0549
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 47, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 20154100F0486 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 2015.