Serious A44 crash in West Oxfordshire on 25 November 2002 at 14:37 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a car were involved in a crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire at 14:37 on Monday 25 November 2002. The 21-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Nov 2002
- Monday, 14:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95762, longitude -1.60879, in the GL56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200243P479112
- 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
- 44
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 436
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire, 13 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200843P336128
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire, 13 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198543G027075
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire, 23 March 1996
At the same spotRef 199643P082036
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire, 20 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198143G053101
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire, 13 May 2023
1 m awayRef 2023430209274
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire, 4 February 2025
4 m awayRef 2025431560772
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200243P479112 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.