A4008 crash in Three Rivers on 6 August 1995 at 18:12 involving a Mercedes van
A Mercedes van crashed on the A4008 in Three Rivers at 18:12 on Sunday 6 August 1995. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 1995
- Sunday, 18:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62823, longitude -0.37363, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954100C0472
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4008
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 March 1996.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 18 March 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100C0169
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 26 November 1997
22 m awayRef 19974100C0784
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 5 May 2011
22 m awayRef 20114100C0419
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 16 February 2003
32 m awayRef 20034100C0233
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 20 November 2011
40 m awayRef 20114100C1136
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 12 September 2010
41 m awayRef 20104100C0930
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 19954100C0472 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.