A423 crash in Cherwell on 17 May 1999 at 10:36 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van, a Rover 200 Series and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A423 in Cherwell at 10:36 on Monday 17 May 1999. A 26-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van, the 30-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van and the 34-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 1999
- Monday, 10:36
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08417, longitude -1.33697, in the OX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199943P201059
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 423
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 2004.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A423 in Cherwell, 15 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200443P316034
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A423 in Cherwell, 16 December 2025
17 m awayRef 2025430637632
Slight
Car crash on the A423 in Cherwell, 24 December 1986
22 m awayRef 198643B139126
Slight
Car crash on the A423 in Cherwell, 27 February 1981
42 m awayRef 198143G049021
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A423 in Cherwell, 21 January 1992
100 m awayRef 199243P084012
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A423 in Cherwell, 1 June 1994
102 m awayRef 199443P001064
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
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 199943P201059 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cherwell road accident statistics for 1999.