A421 crash in Milton Keynes on 1 April 1993 at 17:30 involving a Mercedes 200
A Mercedes 200 and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes at 17:30 on Thursday 1 April 1993. The 43-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 1993
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes 200 and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02117, longitude -0.74811, in the MK6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Milton Keynes.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199343S005043
- Council area
- Milton Keynes
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 421
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4034
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 4 May 1994.
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 4 May 1994
At the same spotRef 199443S008054
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 30 November 1986
22 m awayRef 198643D088116
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 16 September 1982
28 m awayRef 198243D020092
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 14 May 1983
51 m awayRef 198343D020053
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 23 January 1993
102 m awayRef 199343S043013
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 24 May 1993
112 m awayRef 199343S054053
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 200
Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
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 199343S005043 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Milton Keynes road accident statistics for 1993.