Serious A413 crash in Buckinghamshire on 7 June 1979 at 14:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A413 in Buckinghamshire at 14:20 on Thursday 7 June 1979. The 58-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jun 1979
- Thursday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60171, longitude -0.55248, in the SL9 postcode district. The location was in the former Chiltern district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943B015069
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 413
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 413
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 6 January 1994.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 6 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199443N042014
Serious
Car crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 26 December 1982
10 m awayRef 198243B094122
Slight
Car crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 28 November 1984
20 m awayRef 198443A188114
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 22 December 2006
22 m awayRef 200643N300126
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 19 November 2010
22 m awayRef 201043N152110
Slight
Car crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 27 January 2001
22 m awayRef 200143N399011
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197943B015069 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.