Serious B4030 crash in West Oxfordshire on 26 June 1998 at 13:45 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the B4030 in West Oxfordshire at 13:45 on Friday 26 June 1998. The 35-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 2-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jun 1998
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92357, longitude -1.42833, in the OX7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199843P403068
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4030
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 90 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2002.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4030 in West Oxfordshire, 27 April 2002
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Slight
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90 m awayRef 200643P136116
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4030 in West Oxfordshire, 25 December 2001
110 m awayRef 200143P386121
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B4030 in West Oxfordshire, 13 September 2019
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Slight
KTM 125 Duke crash on the B4030 in West Oxfordshire, 25 April 2024
243 m awayRef 2024430190983
Slight
Car crash on the B4030 in West Oxfordshire, 24 May 1988
395 m awayRef 198843B073058
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 199843P403068 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.