C road crash in Three Rivers WD3 on 5 July 1989 at 18:10 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter crashed on a C road in Three Rivers at 18:10 on Wednesday 5 July 1989. The 16-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 1989
- Wednesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6156, longitude -0.51231, 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
- 19894141C2115
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 11 August 1988
At the same spotRef 19884141C2158
Serious
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 5 February 1998
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Serious
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 22 October 2000
85 m awayRef 20004100C0549
Fatal
Renault Megane crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 27 June 2009
95 m awayRef 20094100C0542
Serious
Lorry crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 1 December 1980
100 m awayRef 19804141C2187
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 19894141C2115 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 1989.