Serious A4008 crash in Three Rivers on 6 January 2000 at 21:50 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada crashed on the A4008 in Three Rivers at 21:50 on Thursday 6 January 2000. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jan 2000
- Thursday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63425, longitude -0.37658, in the WD19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford, Watford.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004100C0013
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4008
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 27 August 2014
10 m awayRef 20144100C0888
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 18 December 2002
20 m awayRef 20024100C6033
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 13 October 2020
21 m awayRef 2020411005510
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the A4008 in Watford, 30 December 1993
22 m awayRef 19934100C0665
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 7 November 1997
22 m awayRef 19974100C0732
Slight
Car crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 1 July 2006
22 m awayRef 20064100C0659
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
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 20004100C0013 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 2000.