A44 crash in West Oxfordshire on 17 August 2013 at 11:45 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series, a Ford Fiesta and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire at 11:45 on Saturday 17 August 2013. The 27-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series and the 82-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2013
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 1 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84702, longitude -1.35351, in the OX20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woodstock.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201343P159083
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2014.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire, 13 November 2014
3 m awayRef 201443P147114
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in West Oxfordshire, 24 July 1980
3 m awayRef 198043G055070
Slight
Van crash on the A34 in West Oxfordshire, 27 August 1982
3 m awayRef 198243G081082
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in West Oxfordshire, 8 July 1986
3 m awayRef 198643B093076
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in West Oxfordshire, 13 January 1986
3 m awayRef 198643B045016
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A44 in West Oxfordshire, 24 October 2011
3 m awayRef 201143P324101
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201343P159083 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 2013.