A416 crash in Buckinghamshire on 18 December 2017 at 17:48 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A416 in Buckinghamshire at 17:48 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 26-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 17:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72473, longitude -0.59787, in the HP5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesham. The location was in the former Chiltern district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430381977
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 416
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 March 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A416 in Buckinghamshire, 25 March 1989
2 m awayRef 198943A095039
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A416 in Buckinghamshire, 7 February 2011
2 m awayRef 201143N099021
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A416 in Buckinghamshire, 14 May 2004
2 m awayRef 200443N365054
Slight
Car crash on the A416 in Buckinghamshire, 25 April 2017
9 m awayRef 2017430125757
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A416 in Buckinghamshire, 25 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025430652697
Serious
Car crash on the A416 in Buckinghamshire, 25 December 2000
11 m awayRef 200043N363120
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017430381977 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.