Serious unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD3 on 14 February 1996 at 13:05 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 13:05 on Wednesday 14 February 1996. The 76-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Feb 1996
- Wednesday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63655, longitude -0.49169, in the WD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rickmansworth.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964100C0097
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1994.
Slight
Suzuki Samurai crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 10 March 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100C0129
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 5 November 1993
10 m awayRef 19934100C0550
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 23 January 1997
14 m awayRef 19974100C0057
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 21 October 1992
42 m awayRef 19924100C0470
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 20 February 1979
45 m awayRef 19794141C2058
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 5 October 1995
58 m awayRef 19954100C0606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 76, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 19964100C0097 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 1996.