Unclassified road crash in West Oxfordshire OX29 on 26 November 1990 at 17:10 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire at 17:10 on Monday 26 November 1990. The 27-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
- 26 Nov 1990
- Monday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78734, longitude -1.3725, in the OX29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199043F114110
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 18 December 1981
22 m awayRef 198143G036121
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 22 April 1995
28 m awayRef 199543U088045
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 7 June 2011
30 m awayRef 201143P044061
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 18 January 2017
30 m awayRef 2017430032278
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 19 December 1999
45 m awayRef 199943P343129
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 3 August 2025
59 m awayRef 2025430395123
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 199043F114110 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 1990.