A4125 crash in Three Rivers on 22 September 1979 at 11:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A4125 in Three Rivers at 11:40 on Saturday 22 September 1979. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 1979
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62326, longitude -0.41094, in the HA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19794141C2288
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4125
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2015.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 27 January 2015
22 m awayRef 20154100C0114
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 10 January 1994
58 m awayRef 19944100C0012
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 25 June 1994
73 m awayRef 19944100C0337
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 8 January 2006
92 m awayRef 20064100C0022
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 13 May 2021
94 m awayRef 2021411069371
Slight
Lorry crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 25 May 1983
100 m awayRef 19834141C2078
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 19794141C2288 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 1979.