Serious C road crash in Milton Keynes MK16 on 24 December 1981 at 15:07 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Milton Keynes at 15:07 on Thursday 24 December 1981. The 32-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 15:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06821, longitude -0.66831, in the MK16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Milton Keynes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198143D048121
- Council area
- Milton Keynes
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 18 March 2011
36 m awayRef 201143S100031
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 20 September 1987
102 m awayRef 198743D076097
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 18 July 2002
120 m awayRef 200243S094072
Slight
Ford Capri crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 3 April 1991
226 m awayRef 199143K002041
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 23 January 1985
306 m awayRef 198543D023015
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 8 September 1993
471 m awayRef 199343S022093
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, 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 198143D048121 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Milton Keynes road accident statistics for 1981.