Fatal A413 crash in Buckinghamshire on 20 April 1996 at 21:50 involving a Ford Granada taxi
A Ford Granada taxi hit a pedestrian on the A413 in Buckinghamshire at 21:50 on Saturday 20 April 1996. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 20 Apr 1996
- Saturday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67053, longitude -0.62982, in the HP7 postcode district. The location was in the former Chiltern district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199643N066046
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 413
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1998.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 16 January 1998
28 m awayRef 199843N109018
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 3 October 1983
50 m awayRef 198343A008103
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 24 March 1998
54 m awayRef 199843N119038
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 5 October 1987
58 m awayRef 198743A018107
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 16 April 2024
71 m awayRef 2024430174181
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A413 in Buckinghamshire, 23 February 1990
76 m awayRef 199043A109020
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 199643N066046 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 1996.