Serious B4450 crash in West Oxfordshire on 18 October 2000 at 19:13 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 crashed on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire at 19:13 on Wednesday 18 October 2000. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Oct 2000
- Wednesday, 19:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9017, longitude -1.60986, 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
- 200043P323100
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4450
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 30 December 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 30 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200043P447120
Serious
Aprilia crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 7 July 2000
20 m awayRef 200043P181070
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 31 October 2011
89 m awayRef 201143P310101
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 26 January 1990
98 m awayRef 199043B104010
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 12 January 1994
112 m awayRef 199443P052014
Serious
Car crash on the B4450 in West Oxfordshire, 25 April 1981
166 m awayRef 198143G052041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
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 200043P323100 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 2000.