Unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD3 on 1 July 1980 at 15:18 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 15:18 on Tuesday 1 July 1980. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1980
- Tuesday, 15:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61198, longitude -0.51099, 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
- 19804141C2099
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2008.
Slight
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Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 11 April 1997
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 13 December 1999
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 5 July 1985
100 m awayRef 19854141C2121
Serious
Toyota Supra crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 13 December 1994
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Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 14 December 2007
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 19804141C2099 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.