B485 crash in Buckinghamshire on 1 December 2014 at 19:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire at 19:15 on Monday 1 December 2014. The 27-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 29-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2014
- Monday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7024, longitude -0.61779, in the HP5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chesham South, Buckinghamshire, HP5 1SD 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
- 201443N014124
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 485
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 1 January 1987
7 m awayRef 198743A001017
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 16 June 2007
15 m awayRef 200743N188067
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 13 October 1988
15 m awayRef 198843A060108
Serious
Car crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 19 November 1982
21 m awayRef 198243B061112
Slight
Car crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 6 April 1980
27 m awayRef 198043B006040
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 2 December 1992
72 m awayRef 199243N003122
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 201443N014124 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.