B485 crash in Buckinghamshire on 14 January 2002 at 18:10 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series, a Ford Fiesta and a Nissan Sunny were involved in a crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire at 18:10 on Monday 14 January 2002. A 43-year-old male passenger in the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2002
- Monday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Rover 200 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70197, longitude -0.67097, in the HP16 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
- 200243N154012
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 485
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 17 December 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 17 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200243N244122
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 31 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199543N139035
Slight
Car crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 27 March 1983
10 m awayRef 198343A159033
Slight
Car crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 6 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198543A031125
Serious
Rover Mini crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 24 January 1999
10 m awayRef 199943N438019
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 29 November 2014
18 m awayRef 201443N254114
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,342 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 200243N154012 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 2002.