A412 crash in Three Rivers on 25 April 1997 at 11:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A412 in Three Rivers at 11:00 on Friday 25 April 1997. The 46-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 1997
- Friday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64107, longitude -0.47203, 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
- 19974100C0261
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 412
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 404
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 31 August 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100C0425
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 8 November 2025
2 m awayRef 2025411681987
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 7 June 2003
14 m awayRef 20034100C0732
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 24 July 2014
14 m awayRef 20144100C0756
Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 6 December 1994
20 m awayRef 19944100C0658
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 10 April 2011
22 m awayRef 20114100C0331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 19974100C0261 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.