M40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 19 February 1987 at 15:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the M40 in Buckinghamshire at 15:35 on Thursday 19 February 1987. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 1987
- Thursday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60913, longitude -0.7111, in the HP10 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
- 198743A071027
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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 12 May 2001.
Slight
Minibus crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 12 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200143N380051
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 30 March 1999
20 m awayRef 199943N329039
Slight
Car crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 3 December 1982
32 m awayRef 198243B005122
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 13 September 2025
40 m awayRef 2025430470168
Slight
Car crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 7 July 1984
45 m awayRef 198443A048074
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 10 May 2010
45 m awayRef 201043N072050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, 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 198743A071027 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 1987.