M40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 24 June 2018 at 19:31 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a car were involved in a crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire at 19:31 on Sunday 24 June 2018. The 28-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 2018
- Sunday, 19:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6119, longitude -0.73981, in the HP10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chiltern Villages, Buckinghamshire, HP10 9QE 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
- 2018430200880
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2017.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 12 August 2017
4 m awayRef 2017430251589
Fatal
Skoda Octavia crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 10 December 2016
6 m awayRef 2016430004453
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 9 March 1994
9 m awayRef 199443N025034
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 13 July 1995
9 m awayRef 199543N060075
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 23 February 2008
13 m awayRef 200843N247028
Slight
Yamaha crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 9 March 2002
19 m awayRef 200243N118032
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,348 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018430200880 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.