A40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 18 September 2016 at 15:11 involving a Ford B-Max
A Ford B-Max, a motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire at 15:11 on Sunday 18 September 2016. The 54-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2016
- Sunday, 15:11
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford B-Max and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60591, longitude -0.69267, in the HP10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bourne End and Flackwell Heath. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penn, Tylers Green & Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, HP10 9QY 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
- 2016430285964
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4094
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2015.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 3 July 2015
9 m awayRef 201543N078075
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 2 December 2016
14 m awayRef 2016430349345
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 2 July 2009
16 m awayRef 200943N049079
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 26 February 1988
16 m awayRef 198843A094028
Serious
Honda crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 28 August 2001
16 m awayRef 200143N255081
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 20 June 1982
16 m awayRef 198243B059062
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford B-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2016430285964 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.