A404 crash in Buckinghamshire on 25 August 2014 at 11:00 involving a BMW M1
A BMW M1 crashed on the A404 in Buckinghamshire at 11:00 on Monday 25 August 2014. The 56-year-old male driver and a 28-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 2014
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW M1
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56707, longitude -0.76142, in the SL7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bisham & Cookham, Windsor and Maidenhead, SL7 1RE 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
- 201443N200084
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 23 December 1992
21 m awayRef 199243N141122
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 18 August 2012
22 m awayRef 201243N110082
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 7 November 2004
22 m awayRef 200443N070114
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 21 May 1989
27 m awayRef 198943A120059
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 22 May 2007
28 m awayRef 200743N200057
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 5 July 1979
67 m awayRef 197943B015079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW M1
Car
- 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
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M1)
- 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 201443N200084 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.