Serious A4125 crash in Three Rivers on 2 December 2003 at 01:24 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on the A4125 in Three Rivers at 01:24 on Tuesday 2 December 2003. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 01:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6211, longitude -0.40768, in the HA6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moor Park & Eastbury, Three Rivers, HA6 3HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034100C1502
- 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
- 4125
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 20 April 2003
At the same spotRef 20034100C0450
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 12 January 1995
At the same spotRef 19954100C0022
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 9 March 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100C0125
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 22 March 2004
10 m awayRef 20044100C0341
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4125 in Three Rivers, 8 August 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100C0478
Slight
MG ZS crash on the A4125 in Watford, 14 May 2006
10 m awayRef 20064100C0463
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
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 20034100C1502 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 2003.