A404 crash in Buckinghamshire on 23 October 1980 at 16:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire at 16:35 on Thursday 23 October 1980. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 1980
- Thursday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6138, longitude -0.76888, in the HP11 postcode district. The location was in the former Wycombe district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198043B077100
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 2005.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 22 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200543N263055
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Ford Mondeo crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 9 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200643N186076
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 16 November 1996
At the same spotRef 199643N095116
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Toyota Aygo crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 24 April 2025
4 m awayRef 2025430200258
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Peugeot 5008 crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 5 August 2024
9 m awayRef 2024430374604
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Renault 5 crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 5 September 1996
10 m awayRef 199643N025096
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198043B077100 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 1980.