B4494 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 19 October 1980 at 10:30 involving a van
A van crashed on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse at 10:30 on Sunday 19 October 1980. The 39-year-old female driver and a 35-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 1980
- Sunday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55433, longitude -1.39821, in the OX12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198043F043100
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4494
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 21 August 2008.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 21 August 2008
At the same spotRef 200843P174088
Slight
Car crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 13 July 1979
10 m awayRef 197943F019079
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 31 December 2012
10 m awayRef 201243P326122
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 11 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200243P161112
Slight
Car crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 28 May 1983
10 m awayRef 198343F052053
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 12 September 2020
10 m awayRef 2020430286585
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198043F043100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 1980.