Serious B489 crash in Buckinghamshire on 13 January 1984 at 22:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the B489 in Buckinghamshire at 22:45 on Friday 13 January 1984. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jan 1984
- Friday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81772, longitude -0.66889, in the HP23 postcode district. The location was in the former Aylesbury Vale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198443A048014
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 489
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2005.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B489 in Buckinghamshire, 28 January 2005
30 m awayRef 200543N291015
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B489 in Buckinghamshire, 8 September 2001
41 m awayRef 200143N043091
Serious
Car crash on the B489 in Buckinghamshire, 28 March 1981
58 m awayRef 198143A045031
Serious
Car crash on the B489 in Buckinghamshire, 15 June 1985
85 m awayRef 198543A064065
Serious
Car crash on the B489 in Dacorum, 22 September 1979
86 m awayRef 19794141D2073
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B489 in Dacorum, 27 July 2006
99 m awayRef 20064100D0716
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 198443A048014 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 1984.