B4442 crash in Buckinghamshire on 20 April 2018 at 16:21 involving a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle
A Triumph Bonneville motorcycle crashed on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire at 16:21 on Friday 20 April 2018. The 55-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2018
- Friday, 16:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Bonneville
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66158, longitude -0.56949, in the HP8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Little Chalfont. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chalfont St Giles & Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, HP7 9NT area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Chiltern district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430132814
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4442
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1990.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 2 August 1990
4 m awayRef 199043A007080
Slight
Hyundai Stellar crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 19 August 1999
4 m awayRef 199943N275089
Slight
Citroen XM crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 5 November 1997
4 m awayRef 199743N027117
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 27 September 2018
7 m awayRef 2018430300153
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 25 June 2017
7 m awayRef 2017430187675
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4442 in Buckinghamshire, 5 May 2016
7 m awayRef 2016432310516
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Bonneville
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 865 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Bonneville)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018430132814 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 2018.