Serious unclassified road crash in Buckinghamshire LU7 on 31 January 2004 at 17:06 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire at 17:06 on Saturday 31 January 2004. The 39-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 2004
- Saturday, 17:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87312, longitude -0.63441, in the LU7 postcode district. The location was in the former Aylesbury Vale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200443N378014
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200443N378014 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 2004.