Unclassified road crash in Three Rivers HA6 on 18 October 1996 at 09:00 involving a Nissan Primera taxi
A car, a Nissan Primera taxi and a Rover Metro were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 09:00 on Friday 18 October 1996. The 48-year-old male driver of the Nissan Primera taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 1996
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Primera and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61989, longitude -0.42767, in the HA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964100C0655
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 17 March 2002
At the same spotRef 20024100C0146
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 30 October 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100C0739
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 31 October 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100C0686
Slight
Jaguar E-Pace crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 31 July 2018
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Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 7 February 2021
7 m awayRef 2021411067505
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 30 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025411689433
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 3: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Primera)
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 19964100C0655 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.