A4011 crash in Buckinghamshire on 25 March 1979 at 14:10 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4011 in Buckinghamshire at 14:10 on Sunday 25 March 1979. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 1979
- Sunday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76515, longitude -0.7368, in the HP22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wendover. The location was in the former Aylesbury Vale district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943A046039
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4011
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1981.
Slight
Van crash on the A4011 in Buckinghamshire, 30 January 1981
10 m awayRef 198143A054011
Slight
Car crash on the A4011 in Buckinghamshire, 4 August 1979
10 m awayRef 197943A008089
Serious
Car crash on the A4011 in Buckinghamshire, 21 February 1980
10 m awayRef 198043A022020
Slight
Van crash on the A4011 in Buckinghamshire, 16 January 1982
14 m awayRef 198243A018012
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 6 July 1988
14 m awayRef 198843A032078
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4011 in Buckinghamshire, 29 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199643N109016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, 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 197943A046039 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Buckinghamshire road accident statistics for 1979.