A4145 crash in Three Rivers on 30 September 1997 at 22:20 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A4145 in Three Rivers at 22:20 on Tuesday 30 September 1997. The 34-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 1997
- Tuesday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63836, longitude -0.437, in the WD18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974100C0629
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4145
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2024.
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 29 March 2024
8 m awayRef 2024411432130
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 25 March 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100C0158
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 26 November 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100C0634
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 18 May 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100C0462
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 15 January 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100C0024
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 17 December 1996
10 m awayRef 19964100C0827
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 893 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 19974100C0629 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.