M40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 6 September 2007 at 12:35 involving a Saab 900
A lorry and a Saab 900 were involved in a crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire at 12:35 on Thursday 6 September 2007. A 46-year-old female passenger in the Saab 900 and a 32-year-old female passenger in the Saab 900 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2007
- Thursday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Saab 900
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59731, longitude -0.67128, in the HP9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1TZ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former South Bucks district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200743N031097
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 40
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 24 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200543N530125
Serious
Lexus IS200 crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 11 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200643N094076
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 14 July 1997
10 m awayRef 199743N066077
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 11 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200543N255115
Slight
Citroen C25 crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 25 September 1996
14 m awayRef 199643N169096
Slight
Car crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 10 July 1988
22 m awayRef 198843A050078
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 900
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 900)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 900)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200743N031097 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 2007.