A4125 crash in Three Rivers on 23 February 1996 at 09:55 involving a Volvo 740
A Volvo 740 crashed on the A4125 in Three Rivers at 09:55 on Friday 23 February 1996. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 1996
- Friday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 740
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62988, longitude -0.4149, in the WD19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964100C0128
- 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
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 29 September 1996
14 m awayRef 19964100C0583
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 10 December 2006
14 m awayRef 20064100C1388
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 6 June 2005
20 m awayRef 20054100C0592
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 12 February 1999
22 m awayRef 19994100C0088
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 23 January 1995
28 m awayRef 19954100C0052
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 19 January 1994
32 m awayRef 19944100C0027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 740
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,315 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 740)
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 19964100C0128 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.