A40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 16 April 2017 at 03:21 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon crashed on the A40 in Buckinghamshire at 03:21 on Sunday 16 April 2017. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2017
- Sunday, 03:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63515, longitude -0.76532, in the HP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of High Wycombe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sands, Buckinghamshire, HP12 3BW 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
- 2017430113536
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 July 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 30 July 1982
5 m awayRef 198243B087072
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 10 July 1992
5 m awayRef 199243N052072
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 27 March 1988
5 m awayRef 198843A130038
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 8 September 1983
5 m awayRef 198343A028093
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 28 July 2002
5 m awayRef 200243N323072
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A40 in Buckinghamshire, 31 March 2022
6 m awayRef 2022430142584
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2017430113536 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.