Serious C road crash in Cherwell OX5 on 21 June 1986 at 01:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Cherwell at 01:30 on Saturday 21 June 1986. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured and an 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jun 1986
- Saturday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80457, longitude -1.30235, in the OX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198643B067066
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2000.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in Cherwell, 10 March 2000
22 m awayRef 200043P176030
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 7 June 2017
47 m awayRef 2017430178276
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 21 October 2019
55 m awayRef 2019430361757
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 29 January 2005
114 m awayRef 200543P301015
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 5 July 2019
173 m awayRef 2019430207884
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Cherwell, 21 November 1979
226 m awayRef 197943G075119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198643B067066 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cherwell road accident statistics for 1986.