B4009 crash in Buckinghamshire on 15 December 1985 at 16:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4009 in Buckinghamshire at 16:00 on Sunday 15 December 1985. The 25-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 1985
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71497, longitude -0.88744, in the HP27 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
- 198543A095125
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4009
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 January 1990.
Serious
Honda crash on the B4009 in Buckinghamshire, 15 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199043A076010
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4009 in Buckinghamshire, 18 February 2003
14 m awayRef 200343N186023
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B4009 in Buckinghamshire, 13 June 1996
22 m awayRef 199643N065066
Slight
Car crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire, 7 October 1990
50 m awayRef 199043A018100
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire, 30 June 2025
77 m awayRef 2025430325040
Slight
Car crash on the B4009 in Buckinghamshire, 28 August 1981
85 m awayRef 198143A044081
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198543A095125 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.