Serious C road crash in Three Rivers WD3 on 23 August 1983 at 15:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in Three Rivers at 15:50 on Tuesday 23 August 1983. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 1983
- Tuesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62317, longitude -0.47162, in the WD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19834141C2146
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 25 September 1984
At the same spotRef 19844141C2197
Slight
Renault 11 crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 17 September 1996
51 m awayRef 19964100C0546
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 5 July 1995
71 m awayRef 19954100C0413
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 11 November 1997
71 m awayRef 19974100C0738
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 28 March 1995
80 m awayRef 19954100C0214
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 21 November 1996
86 m awayRef 19964100C0750
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, 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 19834141C2146 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 1983.