Unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD4 on 20 March 2017 at 21:36 involving an Aprilia SX 50 motorcycle
An Aprilia SX 50 motorcycle and a Mercedes Vito taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 21:36 on Monday 20 March 2017. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia SX 50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2017
- Monday, 21:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Aprilia SX 50 and Mercedes Vito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70633, longitude -0.43845, in the WD4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abbots Langley and Kings Langley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kings Langley, Dacorum, WD4 8QJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410172939
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2019.
Slight
Honda MSX125 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 3 April 2019
4 m awayRef 2019410832310
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 19 December 1992
5 m awayRef 19924100C0590
Slight
Fiat 127 crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 5 June 1992
8 m awayRef 19924141C0251
Serious
Kawasaki KLX125 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 27 August 2016
11 m awayRef 2016410109669
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 30 July 1993
43 m awayRef 19934100C0368
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 26 July 2000
46 m awayRef 20004100C0366
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia SX 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Vito
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia SX 50)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2017410172939 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 2017.