A361 crash in West Oxfordshire on 27 December 2002 at 17:05 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Renault 19 were involved in a crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire at 17:05 on Friday 27 December 2002. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo, a 36-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo and the 30-year-old female driver of the Renault 19 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2002
- Friday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Renault 19
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91828, longitude -1.54298, in the OX7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200243P406122
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 7 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199943P099099
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 31 December 2024
2 m awayRef 2024430623675
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 26 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025430602991
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 8 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200143P116121
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 14 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198643B052066
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 24 February 2011
10 m awayRef 201143P276021
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 19)
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 200243P406122 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 2002.