M25 crash in Three Rivers on 18 December 2000 at 13:46 involving a Toyota Corolla
A car and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on the M25 in Three Rivers at 13:46 on Monday 18 December 2000. The 55-year-old male driver of the Toyota Corolla, a 22-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Corolla and a 58-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Corolla 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
- 18 Dec 2000
- Monday, 13:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67226, longitude -0.47559, in the WD3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004100T3320
- 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
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1993.
Slight
Lorry crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 6 February 1993
28 m awayRef 19934100T3008
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 28 June 1998
51 m awayRef 19984100T3085
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 18 October 1999
51 m awayRef 19994100T3242
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 21 May 2001
51 m awayRef 20014100T3125
Slight
HGV crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 5 February 2009
61 m awayRef 20094100T3022
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Three Rivers, 25 September 1989
61 m awayRef 19894141T1228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 20004100T3320 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.