Unclassified road crash in Three Rivers WD19 on 19 March 1997 at 06:55 involving a Ford Granada
A car and a Ford Granada were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers at 06:55 on Wednesday 19 March 1997. The 20-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 1997
- Wednesday, 06:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63806, longitude -0.40161, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100C0188
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4125
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2012.
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 21 February 2012
14 m awayRef 20124100C0168
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 1 December 2016
21 m awayRef 2016410137873
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 16 December 2013
22 m awayRef 20134100C1127
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 11 September 2018
22 m awayRef 2018410330067
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 6 January 2003
22 m awayRef 20034100C0015
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 21 June 2024
29 m awayRef 2024411475037
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19974100C0188 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.