B4477 crash in West Oxfordshire on 19 January 2003 at 07:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire at 07:30 on Sunday 19 January 2003. The 52-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 2003
- Sunday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.777, longitude -1.55977, in the OX29 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brize Norton and Shilton, West Oxfordshire, OX29 0SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200343P218013
- 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
- 4477
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 October 1993.
Serious
Mazda 929 crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 4 October 1993
14 m awayRef 199343U008103
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 11 May 2016
16 m awayRef 201643P169056
Slight
Car crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 2 January 2023
21 m awayRef 2023430002260
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 20 June 2006
28 m awayRef 200643P232066
Slight
Car crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 28 August 2012
28 m awayRef 201243P292082
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 25 June 1991
30 m awayRef 199143Q005021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200343P218013 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 2003.