A404 crash in Three Rivers on 21 April 1990 at 00:01 involving a car
A car crashed on the A404 in Three Rivers at 00:01 on Saturday 21 April 1990. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 1990
- Saturday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62477, longitude -0.45712, 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
- 19904141C0203
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 19 December 1979
At the same spotRef 19794141C2346
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 15 June 1982
At the same spotRef 19824141C2108
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 3 May 1986
At the same spotRef 19864141C2086
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 1 September 1983
At the same spotRef 19834141C2152
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 22 September 1983
At the same spotRef 19834141C2165
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 29 September 1990
At the same spotRef 19904141C0457
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 19904141C0203 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 1990.