Serious B485 crash in Buckinghamshire on 26 February 2014 at 06:43 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire at 06:43 on Wednesday 26 February 2014. The 48-year-old female driver of the Toyota RAV4 was seriously injured and the 49-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Feb 2014
- Wednesday, 06:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70183, longitude -0.67387, in the HP16 postcode district. The location was in the former Chiltern district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201443N217024
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 485
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 8 June 1989
51 m awayRef 198943A032069
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 17 March 2002
63 m awayRef 200243N205032
Slight
Car crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 2 October 1981
160 m awayRef 198143B014101
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 17 September 2010
161 m awayRef 201043N122090
Slight
Car crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 3 August 2008
170 m awayRef 200843N050088
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the B485 in Buckinghamshire, 11 September 2012
171 m awayRef 201243N093092
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota RAV4)
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 201443N217024 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.