M1 crash in Milton Keynes on 20 September 2024 at 14:49 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the M1 in Milton Keynes at 14:49 on Friday 20 September 2024. The 40-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 20 Sep 2024
- Friday, 14:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11294, longitude -0.79321, in the MK19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Milton Keynes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024430405754
- Council area
- Milton Keynes
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 1
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M1 in Milton Keynes, 1 March 2018
12 m awayRef 2018430080460
Slight
Lorry crash on the M1 in Milton Keynes, 1 December 1988
22 m awayRef 198843D001128
Slight
Car crash on the M1 in Milton Keynes, 1 October 1985
22 m awayRef 198543D007105
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M1 in Milton Keynes, 24 November 2000
35 m awayRef 200043S190110
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the M1 in Milton Keynes, 28 November 2020
40 m awayRef 2020432003992
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M1 in Milton Keynes, 31 January 1997
42 m awayRef 199743S068017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2024430405754 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 2024.