M25 crash in Three Rivers on 5 September 2000 at 13:19 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Mitsubishi Space Wagon were involved in a crash on the M25 in Three Rivers at 13:19 on Tuesday 5 September 2000. The 21-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and the 46-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Space Wagon were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2000
- Tuesday, 13:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Mitsubishi Space Wagon
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68373, longitude -0.43152, in the WD17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004100T3201
- Council area
- Three Rivers
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 41
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 1996.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 20 September 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100C0570
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 6 August 1997
At the same spotRef 19974100C0523
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 27 September 1994
At the same spotRef 19944100C0507
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 17 June 1996
10 m awayRef 19964100T3054
Serious
Kawasaki ZX400 crash on the A41 in Three Rivers, 5 August 2003
10 m awayRef 20034100C0955
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 11 April 1996
10 m awayRef 19964100C0221
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Space Wagon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Space Wagon)
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 20004100T3201 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.