M1 crash in Three Rivers on 14 February 1998 at 15:34 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the M1 in Three Rivers at 15:34 on Saturday 14 February 1998. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 1998
- Saturday, 15:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70313, longitude -0.37978, in the WD25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984100T1030
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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 2 July 2000.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M1 in Three Rivers, 2 July 2000
At the same spotRef 20004100T1166
Serious
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the M1 in Three Rivers, 4 July 2023
6 m awayRef 2023411344819
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M1 in Three Rivers, 27 July 2013
10 m awayRef 20134100C0631
Serious
Jaguar XF Series crash on the M1 in Three Rivers, 16 January 2021
17 m awayRef 2021411019171
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the M1 in Three Rivers, 8 April 2000
20 m awayRef 20004100T1094
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the M1 in Three Rivers, 14 July 1996
20 m awayRef 19964100T1104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 19984100T1030 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 1998.