A40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 21 March 2009 at 09:00 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire at 09:00 on Saturday 21 March 2009. The 31-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2009
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56257, longitude -0.49744, in the UB9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gerrards Cross & Denham, Buckinghamshire, UB9 4DW 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
- 200943N200039
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 40
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 May 2016.
Serious
Skoda Citigo crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 16 May 2016
9 m awayRef 2016431730516
Slight
Van crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 9 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197943B022069
Slight
BMW F 800 crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 5 January 2009
10 m awayRef 200943N032019
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 5 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198643A015056
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 21 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200043N249050
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 17 September 2000
14 m awayRef 200043N148090
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 891 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 200943N200039 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.