C road crash in Three Rivers WD5 on 25 February 1997 at 02:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in Three Rivers at 02:25 on Tuesday 25 February 1997. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 1997
- Tuesday, 02:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72037, longitude -0.41043, in the WD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedmond.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100C0144
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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 September 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 17 September 1985
At the same spotRef 19854141C1337
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 18 June 1989
At the same spotRef 19894141C1223
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 29 April 1983
At the same spotRef 19834141C1155
Serious
Minibus crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 5 December 1982
At the same spotRef 19824141C1524
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 22 August 2005
10 m awayRef 20054100C0918
Serious
Kawasaki crash on a C road in Three Rivers, 10 November 2006
51 m awayRef 20064100C1216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 19974100C0144 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 1997.