Serious unclassified road crash in West Oxfordshire OX29 on 1 January 1984 at 05:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire at 05:00 on Sunday 1 January 1984. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 1984
- Sunday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79714, longitude -1.37149, in the OX29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198443G002014
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 December 2006.
Fatal
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 13 December 2006
41 m awayRef 200643P175126
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 24 September 1983
61 m awayRef 198343G060093
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 16 July 2025
64 m awayRef 2025430364546
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 17 October 2007
73 m awayRef 200743P202107
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 15 March 1989
140 m awayRef 198943B071039
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 23 April 1985
245 m awayRef 198543G075045
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198443G002014 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 1984.