C road crash in Three Rivers WD3 on 28 March 1995 at 12:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Three Rivers at 12:20 on Tuesday 28 March 1995. The 31-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort and the 36-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 1995
- Tuesday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62389, longitude -0.47159, in the WD3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954100C0214
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 5 July 1995
14 m awayRef 19954100C0413
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 11 November 1997
14 m awayRef 19974100C0738
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 16 January 1994
22 m awayRef 19944100C0052
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 18 May 2012
70 m awayRef 20124100C0417
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 25 September 1984
80 m awayRef 19844141C2197
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 23 August 1983
80 m awayRef 19834141C2146
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 19954100C0214 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 1995.