A404 crash in Buckinghamshire on 23 March 2012 at 18:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit two pedestrians on the A404 in Buckinghamshire at 18:30 on Friday 23 March 2012. A 10-year-old female pedestrian and a 10-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2012
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62775, longitude -0.74899, in the HP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of High Wycombe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2DB 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243N178032
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 12 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200543N141055
Serious
Lexus GS300 crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 18 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199943N245089
Serious
BMW R 1200 crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 20 June 2012
At the same spotRef 201243N161062
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 2 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200643N015106
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 28 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200943N196079
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 28 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198343A155053
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201243N178032 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.