Serious C road crash in Milton Keynes MK6 on 24 April 2018 at 09:08 involving a Rover 45
A Rover 45 crashed on a C road in Milton Keynes at 09:08 on Tuesday 24 April 2018. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Apr 2018
- Tuesday, 09:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 45
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02437, longitude -0.72853, in the MK6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woughton & Fishermead, Milton Keynes, MK6 4JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Milton Keynes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430131684
- Council area
- Milton Keynes
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 104 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2004.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 10 May 2004
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Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 18 December 2025
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 30 May 1993
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Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4034 in Milton Keynes, 10 September 2021
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Slight
Scania crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 4 June 2001
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 45)
- 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 2018430131684 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Milton Keynes road accident statistics for 2018.