Serious A404 crash in Three Rivers on 26 November 1999 at 21:38 involving a Jaguar Sovereign
A Jaguar Sovereign crashed on the A404 in Three Rivers at 21:38 on Friday 26 November 1999. The 39-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 1999
- Friday, 21:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar Sovereign
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63353, longitude -0.46331, in the WD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19994100C0699
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 2 December 2025.
Serious
Honda GLR 125 crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 2 December 2025
1 m awayRef 2025411736277
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 14 August 1998
22 m awayRef 19984100C0512
Slight
Lorry crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 16 January 1995
28 m awayRef 19954100C0101
Serious
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 28 February 1998
28 m awayRef 19984100C0122
Slight
Ford B-Max crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 1 October 2025
30 m awayRef 2025411650809
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 16 May 1997
32 m awayRef 19974100C0315
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar Sovereign
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar Sovereign)
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 19994100C0699 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 1999.