Serious B4450 crash in West Oxfordshire on 23 December 1987 at 16:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire at 16:00 on Wednesday 23 December 1987. The 25-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 1987
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90163, longitude -1.62846, in the OX7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198743B091127
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4450
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2023.
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 22 August 2023
27 m awayRef 2023430376631
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 10 April 1998
36 m awayRef 199843P048048
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 21 November 1997
45 m awayRef 199743P161117
Serious
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 17 November 2000
50 m awayRef 200043P282110
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 31 May 2000
58 m awayRef 200043P404050
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 7 September 2001
58 m awayRef 200143P059091
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 25, 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 198743B091127 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 1987.