A41 crash in Buckinghamshire on 2 August 1985 at 17:00 involving a van
A van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A41 in Buckinghamshire at 17:00 on Friday 2 August 1985. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 1985
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85695, longitude -0.9776, in the HP18 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198543A017085
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2005.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A41 in Buckinghamshire, 25 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200543N523115
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the A41 in Buckinghamshire, 19 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025430480668
Slight
HGV crash on the A41 in Buckinghamshire, 6 January 2000
95 m awayRef 200043N025010
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A41 in Buckinghamshire, 12 October 1992
98 m awayRef 199243N059102
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A41 in Buckinghamshire, 14 October 1997
103 m awayRef 199743N085107
Fatal
Yamaha YZF crash on the A41 in Buckinghamshire, 26 June 2021
103 m awayRef 2021430281835
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198543A017085 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 1985.