B474 crash in Buckinghamshire on 21 January 2012 at 14:00 involving a Volvo V50
A car and a Volvo V50 were involved in a crash on the B474 in Buckinghamshire at 14:00 on Saturday 21 January 2012. A 70-year-old female passenger in the Volvo V50 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2012
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo V50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63955, longitude -0.69303, in the HP10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hazlemere. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penn, Tylers Green & Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, HP10 8AZ area accident hotspot. 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
- 201243N121012
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 474
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2000.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B474 in Buckinghamshire, 28 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200043N336090
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B474 in Buckinghamshire, 18 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200143N237101
Slight
Car crash on the B474 in Buckinghamshire, 16 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198843A126078
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B474 in Buckinghamshire, 8 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200243N161052
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B474 in Buckinghamshire, 23 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199943N254089
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B474 in Buckinghamshire, 1 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201043N042040
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo V50
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo V50)
- 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 201243N121012 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 2012.