Serious A412 crash in Three Rivers on 9 December 1984 at 11:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A412 in Three Rivers at 11:30 on Sunday 9 December 1984. The 78-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Dec 1984
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64118, longitude -0.4739, 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
- 19844141C2255
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 412
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 404
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 15 December 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 15 December 1988
At the same spotRef 19884141C2236
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 2 October 1985
At the same spotRef 19854141C2196
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 14 December 1984
At the same spotRef 19844141C2262
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 18 June 1986
At the same spotRef 19864141C2119
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 28 January 1990
At the same spotRef 19904141C0046
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 18 September 1989
At the same spotRef 19894141C2160
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 78, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 19844141C2255 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 1984.