Serious A4128 crash in Buckinghamshire on 21 August 2017 at 23:59 involving a BMW 3 Series
Five vehicles, including a BMW 3 Series and a Peugeot 307, were involved in a crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire at 23:59 on Monday 21 August 2017. The 23-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 307 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 2017
- Monday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 5
- BMW 3 Series and 4 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6365, longitude -0.75164, in the HP13 postcode district and within the built-up area of High Wycombe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2DB 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430291465
- 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
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2020.
Slight
Car crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 20 June 2020
8 m awayRef 2020430188835
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 28 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200243N359022
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 4 February 2008
14 m awayRef 200843N285028
Slight
Honda CBR crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 17 September 2021
15 m awayRef 2021430419105
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 1 June 2006
18 m awayRef 200643N009066
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A4128 in Buckinghamshire, 13 March 2002
24 m awayRef 200243N175032
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 4: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 5: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
- 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 2017430291465 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.