A4145 crash in Three Rivers on 20 May 1980 at 18:25 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers at 18:25 on Tuesday 20 May 1980. The 43-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 1980
- Tuesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63386, longitude -0.46403, in the WD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19804141C2065
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4145
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 13 April 1995
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 27 April 1989
At the same spotRef 19894141C2081
Serious
Car crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 27 February 1986
At the same spotRef 19864141C2042
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 10 July 2022
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Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 23 January 1998
20 m awayRef 19984100C0050
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 13 July 2009
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19804141C2065 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 1980.