A34 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 29 October 1996 at 15:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse at 15:30 on Tuesday 29 October 1996. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 1996
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67602, longitude -1.30578, in the OX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199643U112106
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 January 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 8 January 1982
At the same spotRef 198243H027012
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 9 January 1998
22 m awayRef 199843P051018
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 12 July 1993
30 m awayRef 199343U036073
Slight
Scania crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 20 August 2025
47 m awayRef 2025430425738
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 19 July 2015
48 m awayRef 201543P174075
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 17 December 2016
54 m awayRef 2016430031069
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, 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 199643U112106 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 1996.