Serious A404 crash in Buckinghamshire on 8 October 2016 at 11:45 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris hit a pedestrian on the A404 in Buckinghamshire at 11:45 on Saturday 8 October 2016. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Oct 2016
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67213, longitude -0.58808, in the HP7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Amersham. 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
- 2016430285729
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2012.
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 11 October 2012
2 m awayRef 201243N095102
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 28 September 1982
16 m awayRef 198243B098092
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 12 March 1991
16 m awayRef 199143B003191
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 24 July 1993
20 m awayRef 199343N149073
Serious
Car crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 12 January 1984
21 m awayRef 198443A044014
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 25 October 1987
22 m awayRef 198743A131107
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016430285729 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 2016.