B4442 crash in Buckinghamshire on 10 August 2014 at 00:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire at 00:35 on Sunday 10 August 2014. The 27-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2014
- Sunday, 00:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64001, longitude -0.55652, in the HP8 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
- 201443N154084
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4442
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2012.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 22 October 2012
19 m awayRef 201243N276102
Slight
Car crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 5 February 1988
25 m awayRef 198843A011028
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 13 August 1991
25 m awayRef 199143B010521
Slight
Ducati 748 B crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 3 September 2004
27 m awayRef 200443N008094
Slight
Car crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 4 January 1988
45 m awayRef 198843A014018
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 24 November 1996
54 m awayRef 199643N173116
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201443N154084 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.