A412 crash in Three Rivers on 30 July 2002 at 16:34 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A412 in Three Rivers at 16:34 on Tuesday 30 July 2002. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2002
- Tuesday, 16:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63733, longitude -0.47878, in the WD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rickmansworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rickmansworth Town, Three Rivers, WD3 1BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20024100C5293
- 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
- 412
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 1995.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 7 October 1995
At the same spotRef 19954100C0615
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 15 June 2001
At the same spotRef 20014100C0296
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 13 November 1993
At the same spotRef 19934100C0566
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 17 July 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100C0434
Slight
Lorry crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 14 July 2014
10 m awayRef 20144100C0760
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A412 in Three Rivers, 19 January 1997
10 m awayRef 19974100C0045
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 20024100C5293 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 2002.