M40 crash in Buckinghamshire on 24 June 2025 at 17:15 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo and a Vauxhall Combo van were involved in a crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire at 17:15 on Tuesday 24 June 2025. The 24-year-old female driver of the Toyota Aygo 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 2025
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57233, longitude -0.57578, in the SL9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gerrards Cross & Denham, Buckinghamshire, SL9 7HD area accident hotspot. The location was in the former South Bucks district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025430314596
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 15 November 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 15 November 1993
1 m awayRef 199343N082113
Serious
Car crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 12 August 1979
9 m awayRef 197943B037089
Serious
Mercedes 190 crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 29 January 1990
23 m awayRef 199043A160010
Fatal
Car crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 20 February 1988
28 m awayRef 198843A074028
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 21 March 2004
28 m awayRef 200443N241034
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, 23 December 1995
29 m awayRef 199543N136125
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025430314596 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 2025.