B4245 crash in Three Rivers on 30 December 2000 at 17:28 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B4245 in Three Rivers at 17:28 on Saturday 30 December 2000. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2000
- Saturday, 17:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61994, longitude -0.38879, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004100C0687
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4245
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 9 December 2016
25 m awayRef 2016410142030
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 13 January 2002
36 m awayRef 20024100C0028
Serious
Volkswagen Corrado crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 13 November 1997
36 m awayRef 19974100C0748
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 24 September 1997
45 m awayRef 19974100C0623
Slight
Car crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 28 October 2014
45 m awayRef 20144100C1093
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B4542 in Three Rivers, 25 July 1994
45 m awayRef 19944100C0399
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 20004100C0687 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.