A404 crash in Buckinghamshire on 1 December 2014 at 05:57 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire at 05:57 on Monday 1 December 2014. The 46-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2014
- Monday, 05:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67038, longitude -0.52841, in the WD3 postcode district. 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
- 201443N011124
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 December 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 24 December 1979
5 m awayRef 197943B090129
Serious
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 25 May 1994
9 m awayRef 199443N128054
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 23 September 1981
13 m awayRef 198143B070091
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 5 December 2000
13 m awayRef 200043N075120
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 8 October 1985
15 m awayRef 198543A033105
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 26 November 1991
23 m awayRef 199143B016201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201443N011124 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 2014.