Serious unclassified road crash in Buckinghamshire HP14 on 21 February 2009 at 02:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire at 02:20 on Saturday 21 February 2009. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Feb 2009
- Saturday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6595, longitude -0.90296, in the HP14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stokenchurch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ridgeway West, Buckinghamshire, HP14 3TY area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Wycombe district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200943N199029
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2025.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 3 December 2025
6 m awayRef 2025430631031
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 8 March 2005
22 m awayRef 200543N186035
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 17 February 1989
70 m awayRef 198943A081029
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 29 March 1985
81 m awayRef 198543A152035
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 7 November 2000
81 m awayRef 200043N123110
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 8 May 2004
85 m awayRef 200443N064054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200943N199029 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 2009.