A404 crash in Three Rivers on 28 June 1997 at 16:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Astramax van were involved in a crash on the A404 in Three Rivers at 16:20 on Saturday 28 June 1997. The 48-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and the 26-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astramax van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jun 1997
- Saturday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Astramax
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65444, longitude -0.49138, in the WD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorleywood.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100C0430
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Unclassified
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 9 November 2011.
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 9 November 2011
At the same spotRef 20114100C1097
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 23 September 2004
At the same spotRef 20044100C1161
Serious
Audi Q5 crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 16 August 2025
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Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 12 November 2002
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Slight
Toyota Space Cruiser crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 14 October 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100C0553
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 24 November 2007
10 m awayRef 20074100C1238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astramax
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astramax)
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 19974100C0430 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.