A40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 18 November 1985 at 17:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire at 17:45 on Monday 18 November 1985. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1985
- Monday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61727, longitude -0.7152, in the HP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of High Wycombe. 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
- 198543A139115
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 11 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198743A051027
Slight
Minibus crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 26 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198443A148114
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 18 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200143N243051
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 27 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200343N314053
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 13 August 2019
3 m awayRef 2019430249925
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 18 May 2024
5 m awayRef 2024430232121
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198543A139115 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.