A4008 crash in Three Rivers on 30 June 2002 at 00:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A4008 in Three Rivers at 00:10 on Sunday 30 June 2002. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2002
- Sunday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62608, longitude -0.3708, in the WD19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carpenders Park, Three Rivers, WD19 5RL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20024100CA145
- 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
- 4008
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 27 May 2003
22 m awayRef 20034100C0634
Slight
Yamaha YQ 100 crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 3 January 2005
22 m awayRef 20054100C0006
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Three Rivers, 3 August 2023
26 m awayRef 2023411347485
Slight
Car crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 9 December 2006
36 m awayRef 20064100C1352
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 27 June 2025
38 m awayRef 2025411610473
Slight
Scania crash on the A4008 in Three Rivers, 4 September 2023
39 m awayRef 2023411349607
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 20024100CA145 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.