B480 crash in South Oxfordshire on 29 August 2007 at 08:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a lorry were involved in a crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire at 08:45 on Wednesday 29 August 2007. The 48-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta, a 16-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and the 65-year-old male driver of the lorry were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2007
- Wednesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and lorry
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66763, longitude -1.07469, 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
- 200743P355087
- 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
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2017.
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 6 February 2017
11 m awayRef 2017430055491
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on an unclassified road in South Oxfordshire, 23 March 2021
16 m awayRef 2021430122056
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 11 November 2002
45 m awayRef 200243P158112
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 22 February 1986
76 m awayRef 198643A023026
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 25 June 1979
85 m awayRef 197943A040069
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 3 November 2025
107 m awayRef 2025430561670
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 2 (Lorry)
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 200743P355087 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.