A415 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 30 January 2002 at 19:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse at 19:40 on Wednesday 30 January 2002. The 25-year-old female driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68113, longitude -1.41215, in the OX13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston Bagpuize. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingston Bagpuize, Vale of White Horse, OX13 5FT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200243P428012
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 415
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 28 April 2022.
Fatal
Yamaha YZF crash on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse, 28 April 2022
4 m awayRef 2022430181606
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse, 19 December 2016
6 m awayRef 2016430036535
Slight
Car crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse, 2 September 1987
14 m awayRef 198743F011097
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse, 23 April 2008
20 m awayRef 200843P193048
Serious
Leyland DAF FT 95 crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse, 19 December 1991
22 m awayRef 199143Q011501
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse, 16 August 2022
27 m awayRef 2022430366880
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200243P428012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 2002.