B480 crash in South Oxfordshire on 27 December 2007 at 12:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B480 in South Oxfordshire at 12:00 on Thursday 27 December 2007. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7054, longitude -1.15858, in the OX44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200743P337127
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 480
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2019.
Slight
Van crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 4 July 2019
29 m awayRef 2019430322540
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Kawasaki ZX crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 22 August 2025
40 m awayRef 2025430430849
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 10 February 1992
45 m awayRef 199243P027022
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Peugeot 206 crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 11 October 2003
45 m awayRef 200343P170103
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 22 July 2002
50 m awayRef 200243P410072
Slight
Car crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 20 June 1986
50 m awayRef 198643B081066
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200743P337127 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2007.