A40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 28 October 2013 at 18:45 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira, a Vauxhall Corsa and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire at 18:45 on Monday 28 October 2013. The 43-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa, a 65-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and the 40-year-old female driver of the Audi A3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2013
- Monday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Zafira and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63111, longitude -0.75439, 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
- 201343N207103
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4128
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2004.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 21 July 2004
2 m awayRef 200443N242074
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 1 July 1996
2 m awayRef 199643N002076
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 23 March 2002
2 m awayRef 200243N255032
Slight
Car crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 10 December 2016
4 m awayRef 2016430357977
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 21 September 2018
6 m awayRef 2018430292688
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 29 April 1991
8 m awayRef 199143C005191
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Audi A3)
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 201343N207103 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 2013.