Unclassified road crash in West Oxfordshire OX29 on 1 January 2012 at 19:16 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire at 19:16 on Sunday 1 January 2012. The 83-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2012
- Sunday, 19:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79529, longitude -1.54582, in the OX29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster Lovell.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243P013012
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, no 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 January 1980.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 6 January 1980
20 m awayRef 198043G015010
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 19 November 2019
20 m awayRef 2019430386310
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 11 September 1996
45 m awayRef 199643U030096
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 30 March 1993
50 m awayRef 199343U088033
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 23 January 2009
67 m awayRef 200943P250019
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 7 November 2011
81 m awayRef 201143P070111
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201243P013012 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 2012.