B4444 crash in Buckinghamshire on 20 July 1998 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B4444 in Buckinghamshire at 16:00 on Monday 20 July 1998. The 34-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a male passenger aged under 1 in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 1998
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73364, longitude -0.85556, in the HP27 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
- 199843N304078
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4444
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B4444 in Buckinghamshire, 26 October 1983
100 m awayRef 198343A139103
Slight
Van crash on the B4444 in Buckinghamshire, 1 November 1985
117 m awayRef 198543A004115
Serious
Car crash on the B4444 in Buckinghamshire, 15 August 1983
121 m awayRef 198343A066083
Slight
Car crash on the B4009 in Buckinghamshire, 12 April 1997
143 m awayRef 199743N054047
Slight
Morris 440 crash on the B4009 in Buckinghamshire, 29 March 1990
143 m awayRef 199043A142030
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4009 in Buckinghamshire, 14 August 1997
143 m awayRef 199743N084087
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged under 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199843N304078 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 1998.