Serious B4047 crash in West Oxfordshire on 16 December 2004 at 19:14 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B4047 in West Oxfordshire at 19:14 on Thursday 16 December 2004. The 50-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2004
- Thursday, 19:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79376, longitude -1.52365, in the OX29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200443P276124
- 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
- 4047
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 January 2015.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4047 in West Oxfordshire, 31 January 2015
35 m awayRef 201543P323015
Slight
Aprilia RS4 crash on the B4047 in West Oxfordshire, 9 June 2025
39 m awayRef 2025430284673
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4047 in West Oxfordshire, 13 July 2002
41 m awayRef 200243P183072
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4047 in West Oxfordshire, 9 January 1990
51 m awayRef 199043F020010
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4047 in West Oxfordshire, 30 July 1998
51 m awayRef 199843P446078
Serious
Car crash on the B4047 in West Oxfordshire, 3 October 1985
54 m awayRef 198543G003105
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200443P276124 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 2004.