B471 crash in South Oxfordshire on 2 November 1986 at 20:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the B471 in South Oxfordshire at 20:15 on Sunday 2 November 1986. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 1986
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53685, longitude -1.07418, in the RG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198643E024116
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 471
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1993.
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 8 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199343P040123
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 7 January 1995
10 m awayRef 199543P024015
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 13 December 2022
19 m awayRef 2022430560153
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 16 November 2025
30 m awayRef 2025430585034
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 23 February 2016
32 m awayRef 201643P256026
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 4 January 1996
92 m awayRef 199643P009016
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 198643E024116 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 1986.