A404 crash in Buckinghamshire on 26 December 1984 at 09:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A404 in Buckinghamshire at 09:45 on Wednesday 26 December 1984. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 1984
- Wednesday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65809, longitude -0.65839, in the HP7 postcode district. The location was in the former Chiltern district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198443A154124
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 1992.
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 2 October 1992
67 m awayRef 199243N011102
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 22 November 2000
86 m awayRef 200043N287110
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 29 April 1994
100 m awayRef 199443N123044
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 19 June 1988
100 m awayRef 198843A092068
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 24 August 2024
107 m awayRef 2024430408221
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 24 November 2007
108 m awayRef 200743N229117
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 198443A154124 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.