A404 crash in Three Rivers on 18 December 2015 at 17:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A404 in Three Rivers at 17:00 on Friday 18 December 2015. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2015
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62921, longitude -0.46079, in the WD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rickmansworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moor Park & Eastbury, Three Rivers, WD3 1JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Three Rivers
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20154100C1223
- 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
- 404
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1997.
Slight
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 19 September 1997
5 m awayRef 19974100C0614
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 17 September 1989
13 m awayRef 19894141C2159
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 7 April 2005
19 m awayRef 20054100C0417
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 11 December 2006
23 m awayRef 20064100C1407
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 30 June 1993
25 m awayRef 19934100C0308
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A404 in Three Rivers, 24 April 2010
28 m awayRef 20104100C0400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 20154100C1223 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 2015.