A4145 crash in Three Rivers on 14 September 2000 at 21:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A4145 in Three Rivers at 21:50 on Thursday 14 September 2000. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2000
- Thursday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63398, longitude -0.46329, in the WD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004100C0465
- 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
- 4145
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 31 January 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100C0057
Slight
Ford B-Max crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 1 October 2025
20 m awayRef 2025411650809
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 21 April 2013
22 m awayRef 20134100C0320
Serious
Volvo 360 crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 7 June 1998
22 m awayRef 19984100C0361
Serious
Volvo V40 crash on the A4145 in Three Rivers, 4 September 2019
23 m awayRef 2019410894245
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 13 July 2009
40 m awayRef 20094100C0633
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 20004100C0465 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.