B470 crash in Buckinghamshire on 7 March 1979 at 17:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B470 in Buckinghamshire at 17:10 on Wednesday 7 March 1979. A 51-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 1979
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5201, longitude -0.50519, in the SL0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Iver. The location was in the former South Bucks district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943C030039
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 470
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B470 in Buckinghamshire, 17 December 1980
10 m awayRef 198043C098120
Slight
Car crash on the B470 in Buckinghamshire, 24 January 1987
14 m awayRef 198743C074017
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B470 in Buckinghamshire, 23 August 2021
17 m awayRef 2021430381131
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B470 in Buckinghamshire, 5 May 2014
18 m awayRef 201443N101054
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the B470 in Buckinghamshire, 15 October 2025
21 m awayRef 2025430527365
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B470 in Buckinghamshire, 1 November 2003
22 m awayRef 200343N011113
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 197943C030039 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.