The incident saw the largest loss of life as the result of a motorway accident since a crash on the M40 in 1993 . *On 19 September 2017 , an 11-mile stretch of the road was closed between Junctions 14 and 15 , near Newport Pagnell , following a suspicious object which was found under a bridge on the southbound carriageway .
There were several casualties in the crash that occurred on the M40 motorway in 1993 .