C road crash in Three Rivers WD3 on 24 May 1996 at 19:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Three Rivers at 19:30 on Friday 24 May 1996. The 64-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was 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
- 24 May 1996
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66801, longitude -0.48341, in the WD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964100C0302
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2011.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 7 October 2011
20 m awayRef 20114100C0989
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 22 December 1979
85 m awayRef 19794141C2349
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 22 February 1989
106 m awayRef 19894141C2030
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 8 August 1990
106 m awayRef 19904141C0370
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 19 December 1983
106 m awayRef 19834141C2226
Slight
Triumph Herald crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 16 September 1996
142 m awayRef 19964100C0556
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 19964100C0302 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.