A4125 crash in Three Rivers on 1 October 1995 at 15:30 involving a Ford Escort
Two Ford Escorts, a Nissan Primera and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers at 15:30 on Sunday 1 October 1995. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 1995
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Escort and 3 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63534, longitude -0.40633, in the WD19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954100C0597
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4125
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2013.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 22 March 2013
10 m awayRef 20134100C0266
Slight
Talbot Alpine crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 22 July 1995
10 m awayRef 19954100C0441
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 11 May 1995
10 m awayRef 19954100C0312
Serious
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 24 February 2020
10 m awayRef 2020410944556
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 28 May 2005
14 m awayRef 20054100C0562
Slight
LEVC TX crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 30 January 2024
20 m awayRef 2024411419418
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Primera)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Primera)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 19954100C0597 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.