C road crash in Buckinghamshire HP17 on 31 December 1996 at 11:43 involving a Saab 9000
A Saab 9000 and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on a C road in Buckinghamshire at 11:43 on Tuesday 31 December 1996. The 30-year-old female driver of the Renault Laguna was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1996
- Tuesday, 11:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Saab 9000 and Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7363, longitude -0.78033, in the HP17 postcode district. The location was in the former Wycombe district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199643N199126
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9000
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,188 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Laguna)
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 199643N199126 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.