A4128 crash in Buckinghamshire on 29 July 2017 at 13:29 involving a taxi
A taxi and a car were involved in a crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire at 13:29 on Saturday 29 July 2017. The 25-year-old male driver of the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 2017
- Saturday, 13:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6629, longitude -0.74341, in the HP15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ridgeway East, Buckinghamshire, HP15 6AA 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
- 2017430015418
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4128
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 24 April 1997
2 m awayRef 199743N136047
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 25 March 2010
16 m awayRef 201043N281030
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 23 August 2021
18 m awayRef 2021430378964
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 21 September 1992
21 m awayRef 199243N125092
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Buckinghamshire, 20 December 1994
61 m awayRef 199443N136124
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 23 December 2012
75 m awayRef 201243N187122
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 2017430015418 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 2017.