Unclassified road crash in Cherwell OX16 on 6 December 2012 at 17:51 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell at 17:51 on Thursday 6 December 2012. The 43-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 17:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06042, longitude -1.3344, in the OX16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Banbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Banbury Cross and Neithrop, Cherwell, OX16 5JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243P073122
- Council area
- Cherwell
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 1996.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cherwell, 7 December 1996
20 m awayRef 199643P039126
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cherwell, 5 August 1998
22 m awayRef 199843P032088
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 22 December 1983
22 m awayRef 198343G097123
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 7 September 1982
22 m awayRef 198243G014092
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 27 August 1985
28 m awayRef 198543G082085
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 9 November 1985
28 m awayRef 198543G013115
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 80 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, 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 201243P073122 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cherwell road accident statistics for 2012.