Serious A404 crash in Buckinghamshire on 7 December 2016 at 06:59 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire at 06:59 on Wednesday 7 December 2016. The 53-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 06:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65314, longitude -0.64321, in the HP7 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
- 2016430362892
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 6 February 2014
2 m awayRef 201443N087024
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 5 September 2019
4 m awayRef 2019430274167
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 4 May 2025
4 m awayRef 2025430218067
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 18 July 2003
5 m awayRef 200343N039073
Slight
Van crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 23 October 1987
5 m awayRef 198743A123107
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A404 in Buckinghamshire, 27 August 1992
5 m awayRef 199243N120082
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 955 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016430362892 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.