B471 crash in South Oxfordshire on 20 March 1996 at 22:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B471 in South Oxfordshire at 22:50 on Wednesday 20 March 1996. An 18-year-old male passenger and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 1996
- Wednesday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53775, longitude -1.07387, 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
- 199643P076036
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 471
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 7 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200643P105106
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 4 January 1996
10 m awayRef 199643P009016
Slight
Car crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 1 January 2019
24 m awayRef 2019430000677
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 23 February 2016
71 m awayRef 201643P256026
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 16 November 2025
76 m awayRef 2025430585034
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B471 in South Oxfordshire, 13 December 2022
84 m awayRef 2022430560153
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 199643P076036 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 1996.