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A44 crash in West Oxfordshire on 15 October 1998 at 17:15 involving a Ford Sierra

A Ford Sierra crashed on the A44 in West Oxfordshire at 17:15 on Thursday 15 October 1998. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity
Slight
Date
15 Oct 1998
Thursday, 17:15
Vehicles
1
Ford Sierra
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94385, longitude -1.543, in the OX7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chipping Norton.

Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199843P250108
Council area
West Oxfordshire
Police force
Thames Valley
Highway authority
Oxfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
44
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2018.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    South
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years
    Engine capacity
    1,597 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    9 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)

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 199843P250108 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 1998.