M25 crash in Buckinghamshire on 31 January 2000 at 03:27 involving a car
A car crashed on the M25 in Buckinghamshire at 03:27 on Monday 31 January 2000. The 18-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2000
- Monday, 03:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6124, longitude -0.52685, in the WD3 postcode district. The location was in the former Chiltern district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200043N403010
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2019.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the M25 in Buckinghamshire, 6 August 2019
15 m awayRef 2019430243104
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the M25 in Buckinghamshire, 1 November 1999
20 m awayRef 199943N010119
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Buckinghamshire, 6 September 1987
20 m awayRef 198743A026097
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M25 in Buckinghamshire, 20 May 2017
23 m awayRef 2017430159553
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on the M25 in Buckinghamshire, 19 March 1996
30 m awayRef 199643N091036
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the M25 in Buckinghamshire, 21 December 2007
30 m awayRef 200743N276127
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200043N403010 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 2000.