Unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD5 on 2 December 2017 at 20:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Seat Ibiza were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 20:30 on Saturday 2 December 2017. The 85-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70115, longitude -0.40286, in the WD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leavesden, Three Rivers, WD5 0XB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017410276716
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Wet or damp
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 12 September 2022.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 12 September 2022
4 m awayRef 2022411231733
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 31 July 2001
4 m awayRef 20014100C0371
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 28 September 2000
4 m awayRef 20004100C0503
Slight
Renault Espace crash on a C road in Watford, 31 March 1993
4 m awayRef 19934100C0154
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 5 February 2006
4 m awayRef 20064100C0130
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Watford, 31 August 1993
4 m awayRef 19934100C0412
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 2017410276716 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.